what progress has happened to the Katrina survivors and new Orleans??

Question

Have homes been built and has New Orleans been able to rise from the dead and begin building a better future for itself??

Answer 1

I lived in New Orleans about 5 1/2 years ago...and recently had a chance to drive through there on the way back from Los Angeles to Florida (where I lived). The area I lived in, Kenner (up near Lake Pontchartrain) didn't get flooded that much, and the townhouses where we resided have been refurbished and fixed. But there is trash, silt, etc., all over the place, and the going rate to work at McDonald's or Burger King and Taco Bell is about 11 dollars an hour! Apparently it's hard to find people to work since trying to rebuild! I stopped by the hotel where I used to work, and business is going well. But the downtown, and the 9th district you hear about on the news, is still devastated....row upon row, block upon block of houses that need tearing down, OLD houses that have been there for years and leaning over, or half fallen down and nothing done. It was so sad driving through, seeing all this devastation, and seeing that almost a year later, they've still not done anything. Looking at the Super Dome...seeing huge sheets of blue plastic on the roof covering the holes made by the hurricane was sad to look at too. New Orleans needs a lot of help....and my old boss told me, help is hard to find, because everyone is living off the government instead of working to get things back and rebuild. I guess time will tell what happens....

Answer 2

Let me clarify something for most people who don't live in the Gulf Coast Areas: Hurricane Katrina was NOT the cause of N.O. being flooded...the levees were not built to code and were underbuilt. The city spent the money on "other projects". N.O. was not in the eye of the storm, but the media portrays it as the hardest hit area and it is not. The Gulf Coast of Mississippi looks like an atom bomb was dropped and that is where the eye of the storm came in. We had 5, 35' and larger waves of water come in areas that were not in flood zones. At any rate, these areas are still in very poor condition. There was nothing left on the coast in Waveland and Bay St. Louis, MS.

New Orleans...well, lets say, same song second verse. They elected The SAME mayor they had before who is known for corruption. The homes are still empty. Only 30,000 people have returned from the 250,000 who left. There are no utilities in most of the flooded neighborhoods. Three major hospitals are closed and will be demolished. The "projects" close to the Super Dome will be demolished to build new condos. All the city is thinking about is money, money, money. Not what the people want....it's just pitiful.

I was raised in N.O. and that's my hometown. I hate to see this happen but it will be a slow and painful recovery. Hurricane Katrina took my home in Waveland, Mississippi; my husband and I floated on an icechest for 6 1/2 hours and lost everything we had; just like everyone else. No one talks about the Gulf coast, only focused on N.O. It is just a sad, sad situation with lots of $$ vultures flying around. Things will never be the same. We stayed through the storm and were evacuated 6 days post-Katrina. The town almost doesn't exist anymore. People have left. There is no tax base. The government "talks" more than they act and make it difficult for anyone in MS and LA to get back to living as human beings. FEMA...what a joke! My family got out because it was so depressing waking up to an area that looked the same everyday. People are depressed and hurting almost a year after the storm.

New Orleans 9th ward looks like everone just abandoned it. Two hundred thousand houses empty; flooded cars still in the streets. People can't come back because of FEMA, no utilities. Lets say it's just a corpse waiting to be buried. The Gulf coast is much the same except it was completely wiped out. Where beautiful beachfront mansions stood, there is nothing. Where the Highway 90 ran along the beach in Bay St. Louis, the whole street is in the Gulf. Homes....gone, cars in the trees, clothes strung all over the place. And people...who are still there...are having the hardest time dealing with the government and insurance companies. You would think the USA Government would care about their citizens. That's a joke in most cases. They gave people trailers 30' long to live in like tin cans; and you can't stay in them during a large thunder storm and must evacuate. How can you live like that? Mr. Bush has managed to de-humanize Mississippi and Louisiana because of his lack of attention to this matter. That's where the blame firmly lay. Just pray for us all.

Answer 3

you won't be able to blame the present monetary mess on anybody individual or social gathering. that is extra the end results of institutional mess united statesand a custom of greed and quick money. 9/11 is extra complicated than that. even as I disagree with the concept Bush masterminded the attacks (ok per chance Cheney), there is a few extremely fishy stuff surrounding 9/11 that shows no less than that the neocons contained in the Bush administration knew more desirable than they enable on. that does no longer prevent some foreknowledge by elements of the Clinton administration both. there is little distinction between the neocon overseas coverage and the Clinton overseas coverage except that Clinton did not pass each of how in Iraq, besides the actual incontrovertible reality that i imagine he would have given some extra years. The Clinton administration curiously also talked with Bush about the accessible favor for action in in Afghanistan.

Answer 4

I was raised in the N.O area. a lot of celebrities glamorized the good deed of going to help the people of LA. through Katrina
I can call a number of people a ask them (is anyone there to help ?) they'll say no and the neigh hood looks the same

Answer 5

I don't understand why people built wooden houses in a state that always have storms... :)

Answer 6

i'D LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT THE 2500 CHILDREN WHO COULDN'T FIND THEIR FAMILIESAND THE 4500 MOLESTORS WHO WERE FREED BECAUSE THE JAIL WAS ABANDONED(?).