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Hurricane Katrina strikes Tragedy
Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, destroying beachfront towns in Missippi and Louisiana, displacing over a milion, and killing 1,800 almost citizens. 80% of New Orleans was submerged by the flooding. 20% of its 500,000 citizens were trapped without power, food, or drinking water. The city became a toxic pool of chemicals, corpses, sewage, and the enseuing chaos, mayhem and looting became rampant. Around 15% of the city's police force had just simply walked off the job. 20,000 people were crammed with sweltering and fetid conditions into the Superdome, and the city's emergency shelter. At a second shelter, the convention center, evacuees were terrorized by roaming gangs and random gunfire. Relief workers, medical help, security forces, and essential supplies remained profoundely inadequate during the first critical days of disaster.