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...less chaos, though the Houston Chronicle reported that some recipients returned later to report that their cards weren't working. FEMA meanwhile, briefly resumed distribution then abruptly decided to discontinue its debit card program altogether and told anxious hurricane victims to apply for aid through its website or its toll-free number. The agency promised that applications would be processed speedily, but the Chronicle quoted evacuees complaining they had been unable to get through on the phone line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Evacuees Grow Anxious in Houston | 9/13/2005 | See Source »

...more remarkable, then, that rescuers believe the death toll may be much lower than initially feared. In the early days of the crisis, Mayor Ray Nagin predicted that New Orleans and its environs would see 10,000 dead. But by Saturday fewer than 200 bodies had been found, leading retired U.S.M.C. Colonel Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland-security director, to declare that "the numbers so far are relatively minor compared to the dire predictions" of Nagin and others. Ebbert says it will take authorities two weeks to make a reliable estimate of the casualties, and the precise figure will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Among the Ruins | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...decimated or practically erased towns from the Gulf Coast. Lawmakers have predicted that the hurricane would ultimately cost the federal government more than $300 billion, more than the combined cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to date. Mayor C. Ray Nagin had initially speculated that the death toll might reach 10,000, though a preliminary body recovery last week authorities shrunk those estimates. New Orleans, a city that had won fame among conventioneers and nighttime revellers, had become a waterlogged ghost town, patrolled by rescue workers and military police shouldering...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Storm, An Uncertain Calm | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

...extent of Hurricane Katrina’s human and economic toll became increasingly apparent last week, University administrators acted to address the storm’s effects on the Gulf Coast and students at universities in the region...

Author: By Joshua P. Rogers and Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvard's Helping Hand | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

While a final body count may not be available for months—if ever—experts predict that Katrina’s greatest human and economic toll will be on members of the lower-income black community...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rebuilding a Lost City | 9/12/2005 | See Source »

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