Louisiana Receives Money For Hurricane Katrina Damage
Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters in living memory. It cost the American economy millions of dollars and the Obama administration have announced there is going to be an increase in funding for Louisiana and the surrounding area.
Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana on the 29th of August 2005, and it turned out to be one of the most destructive forces ever to hit American soil. However what many people do not know is a second hurricane named Rita made land fall around a month after Katrina and also had a devastating impact.
The infrastructure was already completely destroyed by the time the second storm hit and it accounted for a huge amount of deaths.
It has been a huge task to try and reconstruct Louisiana and the increase in funding has been welcomed by the city. The majority of the $26.8 million will be distributed between seven projects aimed to try and rebuild the destroyed communities.
A spokesman for the government said,
“We will continue to work with our federal, state and local, private sector, faith-based and non profit partners, as well as Gulf Coast residents, to ensure local communities have the assistance they need to rebuild the region stronger than ever.”
The largest sums of money will be used as follows,
- $5.1 million to repair the sewage infrastructure in and around the city.
- Xavier University will receive around $11 million for repairs.
- $3 million will goes towards a new leisure and gymnasium centre.
- The Our Lady of Lourdes School will receive around $2.5 to repair damage classrooms.
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However even with this financial commitment from the government there is still a massive amount of reconstruction that needs completed to bring Louisiana back to anywhere near the standard it was before Katrina and Rita hit.
