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   Effects of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans

   By the time Hurricane Katrina came ashore early the next morning, Mayor Nagin estimated that approximately one million people had fled the city and its surrounding suburbs. ... On September 3, some 42,000 evacuees were evacuated from New Orleans, including those remaining in the Superdome and Convention Center.
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   Hurricane Katrina

   Some estimates claimed that 80% of the 1.3 million residents of the greater New Orleans metropolitan area evacuated, leaving behind substantially fewer people than remained in the city during the Hurricane Ivan evacuation. ... Katrina damaged or destroyed 30 oil platforms and caused the closure of nine refineries; the total shut-in oil production from the Gulf of Mexico in the six-month period following Katrina was approximately 24% of the annual production and the shut-in gas production for the same period was about 18%.
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   Houston, Texas

   In August 2005, Houston became a shelter to more than 150,000 people from New Orleans who evacuated from Hurricane Katrina. ... Since 2005, Houston has been experiencing a spike in crime, which is due in part to an influx of people from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
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   Houston

   In August 2005, Houston became a shelter to more than 150,000 people from New Orleans who evacuated from Hurricane Katrina. ... Since 2005, Houston has been experiencing a spike in crime, which is due in part to an influx of people from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina.
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   Criticism of government response to Hurricane Katrina

   The 2000 U.S. census revealed that 27% of New Orleans households, amounting to approximately 120,000 people, were without privately owned transportation. ... Bush overflew the devastated area from Air Force One as he traveled from Texas back to Washington, D.C., and subsequently visited the Gulf Coast on Friday and was briefed on Hurricane Katrina.
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   Airboat

   During the flooding of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, August, 29, 2005, airboats from across the United States rescued thousands of flood victims. Thirty airboats evacuated over 3,000 patients and medical staff from four downtown New Orleans hospitals in less than 36 hours.
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   New Orleans

   In 2004 tourism employed 85,000 people, making it New Orleans' top industry. ... By the time Hurricane Katrina approached the city at the end of August 2005, most residents had evacuated.
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   New Orleans, Louisiana

   By the time Hurricane Katrina approached the city at the end of August 2005, most residents had evacuated. ... An estimated 2 million people fled inland from New Orleans and cities to the south along the Gulf.
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   Hurricane preparedness for New Orleans

   The Hurricane Pam scenario and the level of attention that the federal government paid to it were discussed following the catastrophic effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans in November and December, 2005. ... Soon afterwards, 1.9 million people were evacuated from southern Louisiana, including 200,000 from the City of New Orleans.
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    Timeline of Hurricane Katrina

    President Bush observes damage from Hurricane Katrina over New Orleans, August 31. ... To date, approximately 1.5 million people were evacuated from the damaged areas in Louisiana, roughly 1 million have applied for hurricane-related federal aid, 30,000 are in out-of-state shelters, 46,400 are in in-state shelters and 972 people have perished in the storm.

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