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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. ... Damage to Long Beach, Mississippi following Hurricane Katrina
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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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   Timeline of Hurricane Katrina

   She commandeered hundreds of buses from across Louisiana using her executive powers, and those buses eventually evacuated more than 15,000 people that were stranded in the city to the SuperDome by Thursday, September 1. ... President Bush observes damage from Hurricane Katrina over New Orleans, August 31.
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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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   Political effects of Hurricane Katrina

   These factors may have prevented many people from being able to evacuate on their own. ... However, when Hurricane Katrina passed east of New Orleans, it was a weakening Category 4 storm.
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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 private mobility. ... 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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   Social effects of Hurricane Katrina

   A 2006–07 study, co-authored by Tulane University and University of Michigan researchers, of people living in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck concluded that individuals who lost their homes were five times more likely to have suffered from severe psychological distress a year after the storm than those who didn’t lose their home. ... Most helicopter pilots and rescue boat captains refused to load pets in order to hold more people.
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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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   Hurricane Katrina effects by region

   Approximately one million people had fled the city and its surrounding suburbs by the evening of August 28, while about 100,000 people remained in the city, with about 10,000 taking shelter at the Louisiana Superdome which had been prepared to accommodate only 800 - eventually 30,000 arrived at the Superdome before they were evacuated. ... Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans
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    Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina

    Also, before Hurricane Katrina, the region supported approximately one million non-farm jobs, with 600,000 of them in New Orleans. ... Before the storm, at least 14,000 people were employed at Gulf Coast casinos.

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• Social effects of Hurricane Katrina,
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• Hurricane Katrina effects by region,
• Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina

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