''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.
Red Cross photo by Daniel Cima. Hurricane Katrina taught everyone that the unthinkable can happen at any time â be prepared. Ten years ago Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast and the American Red Cross launched a disaster response larger than ever seen before.To this day nothing has reached the magnitude of the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina relief operation. Katrinaâs fury caused the loss of more than 1,800 lives.The storm left behind more than $81 billion in destruction and damaged or destroyed as many as 350,000 residences from Texas to Florida.ou can see some of the faces and stories of the Red Cross Katrina relief response here. HELP CONTINUED AFTER THE STORM Katrina left behind such devastation, survivors needed help and support for years to come.