Hurricane Katrina - Livability Statistics

Third Year Anniversary

On Monday, 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina careened into the Gulf Coast, putting 80% of New Orleans under water and bashing the Mississippi coast like it was matchsticks.

Three years after Katrina, life in New Orleans is far from normal: hospitals, schools, libraries, even bus service all remain limited. Rebuilding remains spotty, despite $110 billion (same amount allocated as in 2006) in federal monies.

The nation's most costly natural disaster, Katrina killed more than 1,600 people ... destroyed 200,000 Gulf Coast homes ... displaced about 1 million people. News reports place insured property damage at $25.3 billion in 1.7 million insurance claims -- 975,000 of them in Louisiana.

Livability Statistics Post-Katrina, New Orleans Area