Making Progress in the Gulf

Just about four months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, the cleanup process is still underway, according to a press release from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in late August 2005, nearly 53 million cubic yards of debris have been removed in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, according to FEMA.

The storm left more than 40 million cubic yards of debris in Mississippi alone, 27 million cubic yards of which has been cleared, according to a report in the Sun Herald (Gulfport, Miss.).

According to the report, the cleanup in Mississippi is about 60 percent completed.