How many people died during Katrina’s hit, d’ya know or anyone else know? Thirty people dying in that flood is pretty horrific. I saw video of it and it was just immense in scope and the damage it has done is so sad for so many.
Looked up death toll for Katrina. 1,836 deaths, and 81 billion is damages according to Wikipedia. 1577 death in Louisiana alone with 135 listed as still missing.
Katrina redistributed over one million people from the central Gulf coast elsewhere across the United States, which became the largest diaspora in the history of the United States.[69] Houston, Texas, had an increase of 35,000 people.
In Texas, where more than 300,000 refugees were located, local officials ran 20,000 criminal background checks on the refugees, as well as on the relief workers helping them and people who opened up their homes. The background checks found that 45% of the refugees had a criminal record of some nature, and that 22% had a violent criminal record.[84] The number of homicides in Houston from September 2005 through February 22, 2006 went up by 23% relative to the same period a year before; 29 of the 170 murders involved displaced Louisianans as victims or suspects.[85]