By MemoriesAlways Staff
PASCAGOULA -- Only 2 percent of the estimated 1,000 people who died during Hurricane Katrina and its related accidents and injuries were under 18 years old, according to a new report released this week.
Media outlets published the report a day before Gulf Coast residents marked the third anniversay of Katrina on today.
The report said that nearly half those who died in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama were over 75 years old. Most died the morning Katrina hit the Gulf Coast - Aug. 29, 2005. The eye came in near Waveland and Bay St. Louis, Miss., almost wiping the small towns from the shoreline.
New Report Released On Hurricane Katrina Deaths
Posted Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008@ www.wkrg.com
Residents in New Orleans and cities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama held community events Friday to remember the day Katrina came ashore, and to commemorate the lives of those lost during the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.
Federal, state and municipal officials and residents along the coastline of west Alabama to southern Texas have spent the last week monitoring Tropical Storm/Hurricane Gustav, which now has killed about 60 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. They are making preparations for shelter or to evacuate, and hoping Gustav is not a repeat of Hurricane Katrina.
3 years after Katrina, new study focuses on death toll in elderly, drowning leading cause
Posted Aug. 28, 2008 @ www.newsday.com
Gov. Haley Barbour declared a state of emergency in South Mississippi on Thursday and extended that emergency to the entire state on Friday, Aug. 29, according to state officials.
Hurricane Gustav is expected to make landfall Tuesday, Sept. 2.
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