''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.
Of the 5.8 million people living in the areas hit hardest by Katrina, some 1.3 million lived in the New Orleans metropolitan area, with close to one-half million people living in the city of New Orleans itself. The poverty rate in the city is exceptionally high.