This document contains the summary statistics of the disaster experiences of participants in the Assessments of social, community, and psychological impacts of flood/hurricane victims project.
Participants were asked to choose one flood/hurricane experienced in the past 10 years to be their "most influential natural disaster". Below are the disasters participants named.
| Participants' Most Influential Flood/Hurricane | ||
|---|---|---|
| Frequency | Percentage | |
| 2002 Hurricane Lily | 12 | 1.2 |
| 2005 Hurricane Katrina | 434 | 42.7 |
| 2005 Hurricane Rita | 28 | 2.8 |
| 2008 Hurricane Gustav | 103 | 10.1 |
| 2016 Louisiana Flood | 331 | 32.5 |
| 2017 Hurricane Harvey | 48 | 4.7 |
| Low Frequency | 21 | 2.1 |
| None | 6 | 0.6 |
| Unidentifiable | 34 | 3.3 |
| Note: Although we asked participants to recall only the past 15 years, some stated events that were older. Low Frequency refers to disasters that were named less than 10 times. These include 1969 Hurricane Camille (1), 1979 Hurricane Frederic (1), 1992 Hurricane Andrew (1), 2001 Hurricane Allison (1), 2004 Hurricane Ivan(2), 2005 Hurricane Wilma (1), 2004 Hurricane Frances (1), 2008 Hurricane Ike(1), 2012 Hurricane Sandy(2), 2012 Hurricane Isaac (9), 2017 Hurricane Maria(1). None refers to responses that indicated no disasters were influential. Unidentifiable refers to responses that were not identifiable, e.g., major typos, general reference to ''hurricane'' or ''flood'' without naming the storm. | ||
Participants were asked to indicate the kind of loss they experienced in the index disaster. The table below shows the breakdown of the frequencies and percentages of the loss experiences identified by the participants.
| Loss Experiences by Survey Participants | N = 1,0171 |
|---|---|
| Death of a family member or a friend | 41 (4.2%) |
| Major injury of self | 1 (0.1%) |
| Minor injury of self | 24 (2.5%) |
| Major injury of family/friend | 54 (5.6%) |
| Minor injury of family/friend | 138 (14%) |
| Major destruction of home | 312 (32%) |
| Minor destruction of home | 387 (40%) |
| Other destruction of property | 415 (43%) |
| Loss of job | 25 (2.6%) |
| Not able to go to work for a period of time | 183 (19%) |
| Others | 181 (19%) |
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