A few weeks later, evacuees had to leave again, because Hurricane Rita was expected to make landfall near Houston. But the few weeks that the Astrodome sheltered so many people in need was a defining time for Houston, says then-Harris County Judge Robert Eckels.
The Houston Texans and the Rodeo propose demolishing it and turning the area into green space. Official websites use. Historic Disasters - Hurricane Katrina. Search by Title or Keyword. Survivors Outside of the Louisiana Superdome Residents are bringing their belongings and lining up to get into the Superdome which has been opened as a hurricane shelter in advance of hurricane Katrina.
Convey of Hope baby supplies shipment Convoy of Hope has a cache of baby supplies ready to be shipped to victims of hurricane Katrina. Survivors walking through flood waters People walk through the New Orleans floodwaters to get to higher ground. Cars Parked in flooded waters Cars parked on the New Orleans streets are flooded to the top of the wheel wells in this ground-level photograph.
Boat flipped over by Hurricane Katrina Hurricane Katrina put this boat upside down in this person's yard. Couple arriving to the ramp of the Superdome Local residents arrive at the ramp to the Superdome after being rescued from their homes. Survivors traveling to out of state shelters Another commercial jetliner board evacuees for their flight out of the city to shelters now being set up in cities throughout the country. Photo September 4, Download Photo. New Orleans residents housed in the various post-Katrina evacuation camps such as the Astrodome lost to the hurricane and the subsequent flood their loved ones, homes, jobs, pets, and their possessions.
Their city sustained a tremendous amount of damage that may take years to repair, and many residents never returned to the city. Fact Checks. Hurricane Katrina. I came back that night and got a call at a. By then, it was a couple days after the storm.
It was Colley again. Can you make it 23,? It was an exodus. It was literally a collapse of all organized support for the facility. The word in the media was we had shelter space in the Astrodome. But we also had 30 shelters set up throughout Houston.
We were initially diverting people to those shelters because we expected a convoy of buses to arrive at the Astrodome. The Astrodome had been used a little bit before Katrina. It had team restrooms and team showers for folks. Aramark was our food provider for the events that happened there. They geared up like it was a football game or something, and the food was there. Blanco the Louisiana governor at the time called me as we opened up the Astrodome and was warning me about how bad these folks were in Louisiana.
They were a little tight around the waste. I think we had 18 different police departments there. The first vehicle we let in to the Astrodome was an Orleans Parish school bus. Everybody got out, and they asked the driver to pull around and park in the lot in the back. Nobody would admit to being the driver because apparently, he had just taken the bus and loaded it up for people on the way to Houston.
The driver was a young kid who had never driven before. That was the first of many buses. When the first group came in, we had a table set up with food, and they were filling up bags with it because they had been in a place where there was such a shortage. The buses were just lined up, and it went on for days. People would come in, and their phone batteries would be dead, or their service had been suspended because they had a prepaid cell phone.
We had hundreds of chargers for dozens of phones. Once they had phones, they could figure out where people were. There were buses where people had loaded their kids onto them, and the parents were thinking they would get on.
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