Hurricane Katrina Cruise Ship Housing

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Hurricane katrina cruise ship housing. 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. The Holiday pulls into Pascagoula Miss on Oct. Two Carnival Cruise luxury liners docked in New Orleans are providing temporary home to thousands of city workers and their families.

The cruise ship has become a floating shelter for Katrina. Mississippi welcomed the ship and its temporary residents back home today. Government has chartered three luxury cruise liners Ecstasy Sensation and Holiday for the next six months to provide temporary housing for victims of Hurricane Katrina Carnival.

Temporary Housing for Hurricane Katrina Evacuees Includes Cruise Ships FEMA Reports WASHINGTON DC. 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. 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.

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. Brown Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response and head of FEMA. 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.

Free for commercial use no attribution required. Flooding caused problems with transportation and accommodation. After an extensive refurbishment the Ecstasy.

-- The Federal Emergency Management Agency is pulling out the stops on identifying available housing solutions for hurricane evacuees said Michael D. Cruise ships and other types of disaster relief vessels can be used to provide temporary dockside housing. In Pascagoula Miss a Carnival Cruise Lines ship housing about 60 people was also scheduled to be released Wednesday.