Katrina as sad as it was is one of the biggest fraud ever known to man.
I know people that were still living on debit cards for at least 5 years
We had a family of four in our neighborhood from NOLA who lived in a rental house for 3 years. Government paid the $1700 a month rent, utilities, cost of mowing the lawn and private school for the two kids. They were really upset when they were told they had to begin picking up the costs themselves. So they thoroughly trashed the place and left in the middle of the night.
When Ike hit there was very little help and extremely difficult to get even low interest SBA loans.