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Larry Hayes drove from New Orleans to Atlanta three days before Katrina hit to stay with relatives, learning later that his Gentilly neighborhood home - situated between the London Avenue Canal and Lake Pontchartrain - was destroyed. A licensed social worker, Hayes found that his clients and livelihood were gone too, so he began showing his resume around Atlanta, and today is the Fulton County Supervisor for Project Hope, a FEMA-funded mental health program within the Georgia Department of Human Resources, where Hayes now numbers fellow Katrina evacuees among his clients. "I'm going to stay in Atlanta," he says...
...success story among evacuees, according to a study of evacuees in five cities published this month by Appleseed, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit. The study found that those who self-evacuated pre-storm and had someone to stay with fared better, with much of that category going to Atlanta, where only 16,000 of the 100,000 evacuees who came have left, versus those who ended up in Houston (150,000 of 250,000), San Antonio (15,000 of 30,000), Baton Rouge (25,000 to 30,000 of 300,000) and Birmingham (1,500 of 20,000), who have either...
...Also, according to the report, Atlanta did a better job than some cities at managing the influx by setting up "megacenters" that combined FEMA, housing, hospital referral and medical services in centralized locations. The city's expanse of shelter space and existing plans to house natural disaster victims in them helped too, and Atlanta got "extremely lucky" that hospitals had few scheduled surgeries due to the upcoming Labor Day weekend last year...
...rosy in any city that took in New Orleans residents, including Atlanta. "Public and private agencies were faced with a relief effort for which they were generally unprepared," says Appleseed Executive Director Linda Singer. In Atlanta, experienced Red Cross personnel had shipped out, leaving the agency understaffed, which led to clashes with some local government officials on how to help evacuees...
...real Karr? Until he was 12, he lived with his parents in Atlanta. Then, for reasons the family has not made public, he was sent to live with his grandparents in Hamilton, Ala. He attended high school there but dropped out in 1983, in the fall of his senior year. Not long after, he met and married 13-year-old Quientana Shotts. Their union was annulled in 1985 after Shotts filed a complaint alleging that Karr had forced her to wed him through "intimidation and fear." Four years later, he married again. This time his bride, Lara Knutson...