Census Shows Katrina’s Effects On Populations
Hurricane Katrina drained nearly 300,000 people from coastal areas between Texas and the Florida Panhandle, according to new government population estimates that tally for the first time the storm’s devastating toll on the Gulf Coast.
"Katrina also doubled the rate of population growth in nearby counties, which absorbed tens of thousands of people the hurricane displaced, the Census Bureau’s estimates show [...] Together, 22 coastal counties in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida that were declared disaster areas by the federal government because of Katrina lost 10 percent of their pre-storm population, enough people to populate a city the size of Newark, N.J"
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