hurricane katrina

Two years ago President Bush said he would "do what it takes" to help New Orleans to recover from Hurricane Katrina, and even gave a toll-free number that displaced families could call. Today, that number is disconnected, just like all of the other promises President Bush made days after the storm

The forgotten Katrina refugees...
Still left behind
August 31, 2007

ELIZABETH SCHULTE reports that the harsh reality exposed by Katrina--of two Americas, one rich and one poor--remains two years later.

WHEN HURRICANE Katrina hit the Gulf Coast two years ago, 79-year-old Carrie Lewis had to flee her assisted-living home in New Orleans. Two years later, she’s still living in a trailer, 100 miles northwest of New Orleans.

“I want to go home,” Lewis told a reporter. “They don’t have places for old people in New Orleans yet. What am I supposed to do? I don’t want to die in a little trailer in the middle of a field somewhere.”

Petition: http://WhenTheSaints.org

It's been two years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast region, and still there are tens of thousands of families without homes. 30,000 families are scattered across the country in FEMA apartments, 13,000 are in trailers, and hardly any of the 77,000 rental units destroyed in New Orleans have been rebuilt. Support the Gulf Coast Recovery Bill of 2007 by signing the petition at WhenTheSaints.org