''It was the beginning of hip hop culture, and Zulu Nation members were at the epicentre of it. ''I'd probably be dead if it wasn't for getting straight into hip hop culture, and making a culture out of it, and bringing a lot of my people from that type of way,'' Bambaataa told a journalist in 2008.
The damage Katrina has cost in numbers is the following: Hurricane Katrina: Hurricane Katrina devastation: â¢ 1,836 people died in the hurricane and. â¢ An estimated $90 billion worth of damage. Hurricane Katrina managed to destroy the whole Gulf Cost even hundreds of miles away from its centre. The only similar disaster the United States remember to this was back in 1928 when Hurricane Okeechobee stroke.
Sept. 14-15, 2004 Hurricane Ivan approaches New Orleans, - second evacuation-first time for Contraflow. August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina passes to the east of New Orleans (See Figure 8). Creates 28 foot high storm surge on Mississippi Gulf Coast. 18 foot high storm surge in Lake Borgne flooding nearly all of the populated portion of St. Bernard Parish.