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...Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) last Friday released the results of the only scientific survey so far on the evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, which found that nearly 4 out of 10 people surveyed in Houston shelters had been unable to evacuate...
...survey, conducted in conjunction with the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and the Washington Post, 680 of approximately 8,000 evacuees in Houston shelters were randomly selected and interviewed...
...These are the people that were hit the hardest from Katrina. We cannot say this survey is representative of all the evacuees from New Orleans. Everyone who had the means to do so [isn’t] living in Houston two weeks later, and anyone who’s very sick has been taken to medical facilities,” said Mollyann Brodie, vice president of public opinion and media research at KFF. “This does, however, paint a very good picture about this population in the aftermath of Katrina, and the tenuousness of their lives preceding Katrina...
...study did not cover all the shelters in Houston due to logistical issues and did not visit shelters in Baton Rouge, La. or Dallas...
...fusion of jazz, country, R&B and Cajun defied categorization; in Orange, Texas. He died 10 days after evacuating his home in Slidell, Louisiana, which housed half a century of memorabilia, and was razed by Hurricane Katrina. Nicknamed for his deep voice, he got his break in 1949 at Houston's Bronze Peacock club when T-Bone Walker fell ill and Brown jumped on stage and began riffing. ("I made $600 in 15 minutes from customers," he boasted.) A collaborator with artists from Eric Clapton to Roy Clark, the frequent Grammy nominee won the statue for his 1982 album, Alright...