Hurricane Katrina Cruise Ship Housing

Download Image of Hurricane Katrina Pascagoula Miss October 29 2005 -- Mississippi residents using the Carnival cruise ship Holiday for temporary housing step off at its new port of call Pascagoula.

Hurricane katrina cruise ship housing. Subsequent flooding caused largely as a result of fatal engineering flaws in the. Hurricane Katrina was a Category 5 hurricane that made landfall on Florida and Louisiana in August 2005 causing catastrophic damage particularly in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas and over 1200 deaths. Two Carnival Cruise luxury liners docked in New Orleans are providing temporary home to thousands of city workers and their families.

After Hurricane Ida left nearly one million homes and businesses without power a cruise ship has been chartered to house relief workers. After an extensive refurbishment the Ecstasy. Hurricane katrina was so destructive because of a bunch of events that happened in just the right way.

The average number of nightly passengers for the contract period was around 800 which given the contract price turns out to be 834 per person per night paid by US. Cruise Lines React to Hurricane Katrina Disaster Following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina the vacation plans of New Orleans-bound travelers is just a small footnote compared with the vast loss of life and the drowning -- temporary or not -- of New Orleans social historical and cultural patrimony. Temporary Housing for Hurricane Katrina Evacuees Includes Cruise Ships FEMA Reports WASHINGTON DC.

Free for commercial use no attribution required. In Pascagoula Miss a Carnival Cruise Lines ship housing about 60 people was also scheduled to be released Wednesday. The Norwegian Sun cruise ship enters the Port of New Orleans before dawn as the first cruise ship to homeport in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

In 2005 the ship was chartered for six months to provide emergency housing for both victims and relief workers in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Cruise ships and other types of disaster relief vessels can be used to provide temporary dockside housing. As WLRN explains the FEMA-Carnival contract provides that the cruise line agreed to house 2056 FEMA workers for the length of the four month contract.

Will the cruise ship sail into a hurricane. Mississippi welcomed the ship and its temporary residents back home today. Run by the Red Cross and designated by local governments cruise ships used for the first time after Hurricane Katrina emergency group sites using manufactured housing rental assistance and other supporting services paid for by state governments and reimbursed by FEMA.