Secondary Impacts

• What was polluted?

  Water supplies as sewers overflowed
• What happened to a lot of people?

  Hundreds of thousands became homeless
• How many jobs were lost?

  230,000
• What happened with the oil industry?


  Broken pipelines and several oil rigs in the Gulf were damaged causing oil spills from 44 facilities.
• How did it affect people's health?


  High risk of waterborne diseases (as bodies could not be buried due to flood waters)
• What was the impact on businesses?


  2400 businesses were bankrupted or closed down
• How did it impact the population?


  The population fell to 346,000