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After Katrina

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For the past several days I've been thinking about recovery efforts of Katrina and what's been happening now. I've hadn't heard much news on it. I've been looking around for some information. From what I've been reading it seems that the actual number of causalties will never be known. This is probably because there are reports of people having been trapped in their attics. Also there have been reports of evacuees saying they've seen floating corpses in the flooded areas. And that 40-50 percent of the ecavuees have shown unwillingness to return to New Orleans, so this is going to change the demographics of the city.

I was wondering if anyone here has found any reports of the current state of New Orleans. That would so nice. :bluush: :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
 
I can tell you this much from what I saw and heard when I was home over the winter break: the trees in the swampy area just to the west of the city are still down, the area around Lake Pontchartrain is unrecognizable from the sky, there's still trash in the streets, lots of people bought houses in Baton Rouge and have moved there permanently (one of my uncles included), there aren't enough workers there -- they're offering lots of money for menial jobs like working at McDonald's just because they don't have anyone to work there, and there are still a fair amount of buildings that haven't been repaired. I didn't actually go into the city proper, though, so I'm going on things that I heard from family and friends.

I know that there were people being kicked out of hotels because FEMA quit paying for rooms. A lot of people got jobs and a place to live, but there were some who didn't. I don't what happened to them -- I read about it about a month ago.

Sorry I can't point you somewhere with more (up-to-date) information.
 
My uncle sent me an e-mail of before and after pictures in Biloxi and Gulfport, MI, and it's pretty amazing. There are whole houses missing, and they weren't small houses, either.
 
There are some New Orleaners here in Utah. They came for refuge and I guess they never wanted to go back.

But I guess you have some info and what I just gave was just a fast fact
 
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