205000 houses were rigorously damaged by last year's opening Coast hurricanes.

205000 houses were rigorously damaged by last year's opening Coast hurricanes. As of May, 60% remained unoccupied. *** Displaced families have mov an average of 35 times since the storms. *** In March' the strange York Times found that more than i in 10 fresh Orleans evacuees were homeless or had no permanent place to live. *** Fewer than 35% of recently made known Orleans' 462,000 residents had answered to the city as of March. solely half are expected to turn back by September 2008. *** State Farm and Allstate will longer vend homeowners insurance in New Orleans. *** Eight month after Katrina, fewer than 1 in 10 recently made known orleans businesses had reopened. *** The small Business Administration has cast asideed nearly 70% of the 24 million loan applications received from hurricane victims. *** 36 countries and international organizations donated $126 million to federal rebuilding efforts, half of which remained undistributed six month after Katrina. *** FEMA exhausted $431 million on 11,000 trailer hearths that were never used, $3 million for 4000 unused low bedsteads and $10 million to fix up 240 latitudes in Alabama that housed barely six people. *** Carnival Cruise Lines got a six-month, $236 million contract to house evacuees onward three of its ships, which sat half destitute off the Gulf Coast for weeks. *** The GAO establish that there was insufficient oversight forward 13 reconstruction contracts, including $100 million to Bechtel. *** masters predict there is a nearly 50% chance that a category 3 or greater hurricane Will hit the abyss Coast this season. *** forward a scale of 1 to 10 FEMA director R David Paulison gave the agency an 8 in bounds of preparedness for this year's hurricane season. *** More than 100000 families in Louisiana and Mississippi live in FEMA trailers that Paulison said "should not, or could not, ride gone out even a Category 1 storm."

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