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Hurricane Katrina was the first natural disaster in the United States in which the American Red Cross used its "Safe and Well" family location website. [162] [163] Direct Relief provided a major response in the Gulf states so health providers could treat the local patients and evacuees.
In total, it is estimated that over a million people were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. [9] In 2006, 200,000 people called New Orleans home, a significant drop from the population of nearly half a million before Katrina. [10] [11] Of the rest of those who were displaced, about 40% moved to Texas and the rest went farther to either New York ...
Belle Chasse, La. (WGNO) – Increased stuttering, fear of traveling, bedwetting and anxiety over bad weather are all long-term effects on some of today's teens who lived through Katrina as toddlers.
It's not just a lack of preparedness. I think the easy answer is to say that these are poor people and black people and so the government doesn't give a damn ... there might be some truth to that. But I think we've got to see this as a serious problem of the long-term neglect of an environmental system on which our nation depends." [109]
Hurricane Katrina forced about 800,000 people to move, which was the greatest number of displaced people in the country since the Dust Bowl. The United States federal government spent $110.6 billion in relief, recovery and rebuilding efforts, including $16 billion toward rebuilding houses, which was the nation's largest ever housing recovery ...
By comparison, Hurricane Katrina, the 2005 storm that devastated New Orleans, killed more than 1,800 and cost about $200 billion, according to federal estimates.
August 29 marks the 10-year anniversary of the day that Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, and since then, New Orleans and surrounding areas have never been the same.
Following Katrina, many said that the hurricane had a greater impact on Black and less economically privileged people than it had on predominantly white and wealthier people. “The city’s remarkable recovery has, to a troubling degree, left behind the African-Americans who still make up the majority of its population,” according to ...