The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.
The poorest residents of the gulf coast were most affected by the devastating hurricanes, and the poorest Americans have shouldered a disproportionate share of the burden in Iraq.
Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage.
The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.
We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.
I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.
I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.
Ill never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.
Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!
Hurricane season routinely strikes the Caribbean harder than the U.S.
On the film sets of 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' I feel safe. It's like you're in the center of the hurricane, but outside is where it starts to get chaotic.
I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina,
Hate put me in prison. Love's gonna bust me out.
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.
What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.
Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
A drop in the ocean has no fear of a hurricane.
Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.
Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane.
Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history,.
I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a Jimmy Buffett concert.
In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God
I wasn't going to let a little thing like a hurricane keep me from wearing my bathing suit.
Working with Mel Gibson is a little like waltzing with a hurricane. It's always exciting, and you're never quite sure where it's going to take you.
It's so obvious The Weather Channel is pro hurricane. Fair and balanced my ass.
Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast - that was an act of God ... Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.
I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.
An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.
It is no more likely that our world has evolved out of chaos than that a hurricane, blowing through a junk yard, should create a Boeing.
It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.
As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes
I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.
Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of words and not one of them can save me.
You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.
In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.
Following the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, $3 per gallon gasoline became common and our nation has come under considerable strain.
Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.
Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into the wind can become a hurricane that destroys everything it touches. (Acheron)
The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)
You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it.
When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.
If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
Hurricane Sandy interrupted Mr. Romney’s momentum and allowed Mr. Obama to look presidential and bipartisan.
These days we are all pained by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America.
After a hurricane, comes a rainbow.
If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to -- that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims -- send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers.
Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.
Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.
We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, butGod did.
Dennis Erickson drove to my home and asked me to become a Miami Hurricane. There was no way in hell I wasn’t going.
With boys, you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane.
Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.