The total cost for Katrina is estimated to be $108 billion.
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Many of ourselves need to begin using that in fact dream throughout the entire tumble of 2005 and, at the end of your work in the South, we oftent had educated and rolled out almost 225,000 Red Cross people.
“I can just imagine people trying to get out, it must have been a terrible feeling”.
“That was a very emotional moment when were riding around some of the affected communities in St. Tammany Parish and helping to provide resources, information, cleanup kits (and) hot meals to folks who may not have had one in a week or so”, LaBelle said. Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches that flooded the coast threatened that rich culinary history.
“Memories they both hold on to”. “They absorb the information and they’re at an age where they’re more eager to go home and share that information with siblings, mom, dad, their neighbors and friends”. College aged students were evacuating to hurricane shelters with only what they could fit into a pillowcase.
“I said you know what it’s payback time, so we spent three weeks down there”, Jones said. “It really showed us that a lot of the agencies that worked together showed us that we need to have a better infrastructure in place”.
Despite all of the damage, Jones said he was surprised and inspired by the outlook of the people in the area.
“Looking back, the Red Cross says Katrina changed their organization”.
“You’re going there to help them and they nearly encourage you because they were so upbeat”. That’s because a decade ago, Vickie LaBelle supported the largest disaster response the organization had ever seen.
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The Pillowcase Project has grown over the past 10 years and today the Red Cross across the country and internationally offers the free program to teach young children.
