Hurricane Katrina Cruise Ship Housing

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.

Hurricane katrina cruise ship housing. 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 Pascagoula Miss a Carnival Cruise Lines ship housing about 60 people was also scheduled to be released Wednesday. Subsequent flooding caused largely as a result of fatal engineering flaws in the.

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. Free for commercial use no attribution required. After Hurricane Ida left nearly one million homes and businesses without power a cruise ship has been chartered to house relief workers.

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. The Holiday pulls into Pascagoula Miss on Oct. The cruise ship has become a floating shelter for Katrina.

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. The idea of housing people temporarily on cruise ships is not altogether unheard of it was done after Hurricane Katrina although its not simply a matter of moving people in according. Hurricane katrina has left more than half a million people homeless and hundreds of.

Mississippi welcomed the ship and its temporary residents back home today. 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. The ships sleeping rooms and other venues are available for insurance adjusters clean-up crews construction teams medical professionals and others.

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. Temporary Housing for Hurricane Katrina Evacuees Includes Cruise Ships FEMA Reports WASHINGTON DC. Flooding caused problems with transportation and accommodation.