''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.
The tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 13 countries. At least 128,000 people died in Indonesia alone. Many months later, bodies were still being discovered in some countries. In Thailand a British forensic team continues its work identifying up to 2,000 victims.