Homeless and Jobless after Katrina

There is no question that the 21st century has seen its share of natural disasters, especially when one considers that we have not been in this new millennium for even a decade. Perhaps, at least for Americans, the most recognizable instance of a recent natural disaster occurred in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina is considered to be one of the deadliest and costliest natural disasters in American history. It may have been responsible for taking the lives of as many as 1,836 people and causing upwards of $81.2 billion worth of damage.

Hurricane Katrina shall be referred to periodically throughout this chapter because it represents numerous types of social problems in addition to being a problem associated with the environment. For example, Hurricane Katrina illustrates problems related to inequality, racism, and sexism. African Americans, Latinos, women, and children tended to be disproportionately affected by this natural disaster and were the most likely to be among the dead in the aftermath of the storm

Hurricane Katrina was the eleventh named storm in the Atlantic during Hurricane season, which began in June 2005. It was almost as bad as forty years ago when Hurricane Betsy hit and blew out the entire Golf Coast Floodwaters even reached about twenty feet in most areas and left half of New Orleans underwater and sixty thousand people homeless and seventy four people killed. The human toll for Hurricane Katrina still remains unknown and a mystery.

Although many of the people in New Orleans have addiction problems or mental illnesses, there was a survey “advocacy groups” established in February after Katrina It showed that eighty six percent of the homeless people were from New Orleans. Sixty percent and they were homeless because of Katrina, and only thirty percent said they received help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Four years after Hurricane Katina there were still about twelve thousand people that remained homeless even jobless. Families even after that long period of time lived in damaged, dirty, abandoned buildings without an:' food or electricity to try and survive .

Trouble in the Water

A documentary directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin. is a tale about these two “street hustlers” Kimberly Rivers Roberts and husband Scott, who have no means on leaving the city (mainly because they have no money to) helping save lives they have come known as heroes and will remain unforgettable human beings who lived through and survived Hurricane Katrina. Kimberly takes her video camera on herself and neighbors showing us how bad it truly was and an inside view of the Hurricane itself. It tells a story of these amazing people surviving not only the failed levees, the government and armed soldiers, but also their own past of being in the Hurricane.

There is an estimate of about ten thousand workers that had lost their jobs because or Katrina as well. The economy was severely wounded and it caused the biggest amount of job loss ...