''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.
EQECAT estimates Katrina caused $14 billion to $22 billion in wind-related damage to the Gulf Coast, plus up to $2 billion in damage when it made initial landfall in Florida as a relatively modest Category 1 hurricane.ut even counting only the damage from the hurricaneâs intense wind and flood surge, it seems clear Katrina will exceed the damage caused by Hurricane Andrew in 1992, which cost the insurance industry $21.5 billion in inflation-adjusted dollars.