The men hooked up the line, fuel started flowing. A neighborhood east of downtown New Orleans remains flooded on August 30, 2005. And as Vox writes, this wasn't necessarily by choice "but rather because they were too poor to afford a car or bus fare to leave." Despite the strength of Hurricane Katrina, there was little about the storm that made it intrinsically deadly. [49][50] Grambling State University beat Southern University, 5035.[51]. We pee on the floor. Miller told a reporter. Within an hour, nearly every building in lower Plaquemines Parish would be destroyed. 24 With scant food and water sources, . Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. As Katrina moved inland over Mississippi, it weakened to a Category 1 hurricane and later to a tropical storm. Hurricane Katrina reached Category 5 strength in the Gulf Coast, and although it was a Category 3 when it made landfall, it was still one of the "worst disasters in U.S. history," according to World Vision. They either remained in their homes or sought shelter at locations such as the New Orleans Convention Center or the Louisiana Superdome. In addition, according to the journalSocial Science & Medicine, there were also long-term mental health consequences of Hurricane Katrina. According to PBS, two weeks after the storm, 25% of the children remained unaccounted for. Thornton and his skeleton crew he only had 18 management staff and security officers there, along with the National Guard had to figure out how to best prepare the building to serve as a shelter. Exaggerating deaths in Hurricane Ian a disservice to public Later that day, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco ordered New Orleans to be completely evacuated. She had heard a lot, from the National Guard, from her husband, from rumors among the employees. There is feces all over the place.. 25% were caused by injury and trauma and 11% were caused by heart conditions. FEMA reached out that morning: It was sending 400 buses to begin an evacuation. Because of this shortsightedness, Hurricane Katrina was "the nation's first $200 billion disaster.". Residents of Saucier, Mississippi, line up to get gas on August 31, 2005. But over the Gulf of Mexico, some 165 miles west of Key West, the storm gathered strength above the warmer waters of the gulf. Houses stand in the Seventh Ward on May 12, 2015. A helicopter rescues a family from a rooftop on September 1, 2005. This was especially clear in the poor evacuations of nursing homes. Hanging from her roof, a woman waits to be rescued by New Orleans Fire Department workers on August 29, 2005. At least 1,833 died in the hurricane and. I would rather have been in jail, Janice Jones said while being taken out of the dome. When Hurricane Katrina first made landfall in Florida between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, it was a category 1 hurricane with sustained winds of 70 miles per hour. 25% were caused by injury and trauma and 11% were caused by heart conditions. Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. As general manager of the facility since 1997, he had been through this several times before. The day . Rumours spread in the press of reports of rapes, violent assaults, murders, drug abuse, and gang activity inside the Superdome, most of which were entirely unsubstantiated and without witnesses. When buses finally arrived yesterday, a desperate group of refugees broke loose from a cordon of National Guardsmen, but were stopped by heavily armed police toting machine guns.