While we have been recently hit with various floods and tornadoes,we cannot forget about the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Nearly eleven years after the most costly Hurricane in US history the people affected are still struggling to get their lives in order. Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune reports,
The homelesspopulation in Orleans and Jefferson parishes stands at 9,200, 70 percent higher than before Hurricane Katrina, with the largest share of people living in abandoned buildings, according to counts and estimates released Thursday by UNITY of Greater New Orleans, a collaborative of 63 social service agencies.
Photo Credit: Ted Jackson, the Times-Picayune
Please take the time to review some of the archived photos of this disaster http://photos.nola.com/hurricane_katrina/index.html
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Posted on June 3, 2011
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