I am a selfish person.
It happened on August 29, 2005. It went through nearly 100,000 square miles destroying everything in them diplacing million people, killing 1,836 and unaccounted number missing. In New Orleans, after the levee system failed and nearly 80 percent of the cities were submerged and a quarter of a million homes were destroyed.
The black and poor people lived in the low lying areas, and they were stayed behind as they did not get help and transportation from the State.
After the storm hundreds of survivors of the storm were tranded on roof tops and closedinterstate ramps in the scorching heat, and died while waiting for the medical care, water and rescue. Even the shelters as the big football stadium did not have proper security, or water and medical care.
The situation got worse as the people started looting the shops to get water and medical supplies, and the Gov put thousands of combat-armed National Guard troops, federal and police units, to locked the city and most of the innocent people were shot and others were demonized by gov and the media.
After three years there are no emergency shelters arrangements are made intentially to discourage people not to evacuate in a similar storm. There are 150 buses already in the city to evacuate 30,000 city dwellers already earmarked (pun intended). But there are 7000 families who were displaced 3 years earlier living in flimsy, storm vulnerable state trailers in the Metro area of the city.
Above is the summarised bits about what happened in 2003. This is taken from :
Three years since Hurricane Katrina
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