* Estimated percentage of New Orleans metro area's pre-storm population of about 460,000 that had returned as of June 30: 37
* Of the 368 buses operating in New Orleans before Katrina, number operating as of July 2006: 61
* Gallons of water the new Orleans water system loses each day due to breaks caused by Katrina and an underfunded repair budget: 85 million
* Months after Katrina that federal money for housing reconstruction was approved: 10
* Total federal funds dispersed so far to rebuild homes: 0
* Occupancy rate of livable apartments in New Orleans: 99
* Number of hospitals in Orleans Parish before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: 22
* Number as of August 2006: 11
* Approximate increase in New Orleans suicide rate since Katrina: 300%
* Percent of New Orleans small businesses destroyed by Katrina: 60
* By May 2006, percent of small businesses that had been approved for disaster loans from the Small Business Administration that had actually received them: 37
* Value of wages that contractors had not paid their workers but were eventually recovered by the Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance: over $700,000
* Number of New Orleans prisoners whose trials have never been set or have been delayed, or who have never seen an attorney: about 6,000
* Amount of oil spilled in Louisiana from damaged tanks and other production facilities during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: 10.5 million gallons
* Amount spilled from 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska: 11 million gallons
* Portion of hazardous materials that authorities would be "lucky" to remove from the post-Katrina waste stream, according to an EPA official: 20 to 30 percent
* Percent of New Orleans cultural institutions that remain closed from storm damage: 75
* Of the 30 U.N. Principles guiding the handling of "Internally Displaced People," number that legal scholars believe were violated in the case of Katrina: 16
Source: One Year after Katrina, Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch/Institute for Southern Studies, August 2006.
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Katrina facts
I am just plain ol' lifting this right from Pam's House Blend to share data about the lack of progress in the Gulf Coast.
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