*Hurricane Katrina was the sixth strongest hurricane ever recorded and the third strongest hurricane ever recorded to make landfall in the U.S.
*The storm surge from Katrina was 20-feet (six meters) high
*More than one million Gulf Coast residents have been displaced and many of the refugees were living below the poverty line before the storm struck.
*About 90,000 square miles were affected by Katrina
*Before the hurricane, the region supported approximately one million non-farm jobs, with 600,000 of them in New Orleans, but hundreds of thousands of local residents were left unemployed by the hurricane.
*An estimated 80% of New Orleans was under water, up to 20 feet deep in places.
