Rick Perry sent $19.5 million to Houston to help pay for additional officers and overtime to police the city after Katrina.The police and the Harris County sheriff's department said they have no figures on how many Katrina evacuees have been arrested. Currently Reading Hurricane Katrina: Aug. 31, 2005 in photos Allen lost her house in New Orleans to Katrina. An estimated 150,000 people evacuated from Louisiana into the Houston region as a result of Hurricane Katrina. But the sheriff's department reported a 41 percent increase in felony arrests in November from the year before. A group of traveling Texans fans were in New Orleans two years ago as Hurricane Harvey flooded their hometown. COVID-19 cases among children up 90% over four weeks, report saysWatch live: President Trump to hold press conferencePutin claims Russia has developed a coronavirus vaccineBiden has spoken to his top VP choices — and a decision is imminentState Department IG says Pompeo followed law on Saudi arms dealNYPD accused of creating "glass ceiling" for women in forceL.A. In June, Texas Gov. When Houston opened its arms to Katrina’s victims, its leaders noted that the county, local cities and other key agencies and corporations had worked together for years to brace for catastrophe. He said that in New Orleans before Katrina, "everyone knows that if the jail's crowded you get a slap on the hand and get released. Dale Brown, who oversees Houston's homicide division. In mid-August 2005, it became likely that tropical storm Katrina was going to reach hurricane strength and impact the Gulf Coast.
Houston was nicknamed "New Orleans West" after taking in so many evacuees in 2005.
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Houston reportedly welcomed as many as a quarter million evacuees, and the city estimates 40,000 never moved back. The Huddled Masses Five years after Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana exiles have fundamentally changed Houston, and vice-versa. The Bush Administration sought $105 billion for repairs and reconstruction in the region, which did not account for damage to the economy caused by potential interruption of the oil supply, destruction of the Gulf Coast's highway infrastructure, and exports of commodities such as grain. Dale Brown, who oversees Houston's homicide division. Katrina sent a lot of bad guys to Texas, as Houston is finding out. My family all left for Houston after the storm was projected to hit New Orleans. Houston took in 150,000 evacuees — the most of any U.S. city — after Katrina struck on Aug. 29. "Survival. Many who were flooded out 12 years ago have been forced to … It's pretty much the same thing," said Dominick Robinson. Katrina sent a lot of bad guys to Texas, as Houston is finding out. In June, Texas Gov. Hurricane Rita was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico beating Hurricane Katrina and the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. "I think some saw (Katrina) as an opportunity," Martin's bounty-hunting partner, Michael Wright, said of evacuees who fled New Orleans with criminal records. Landrieu remarked. Two days after the levees broke in New Orleans in August 2005, evacuees arrived at the …