Disaster response is disability justice.

Disabled people are among those hardest hit by natural disasters, especially across the South, from emergency alerts and evacuation to shelter and recovery. A safer South means building a disaster response that involves all of us, not just some of us. ALT Embedded. IDs: S1- A purple graphic with a black-and-white photo of a wheelchair user facing a long line of people outside the Superdome. Text reads: “Hurricane Katrina Was a Disability Justice Issue.” Below: “21 Years After, Disabled Southerners Are Still Fighting for Disaster Justice.” The New Disabled South logo is in the top right. S2- The same purple graphic theme with a hurricane image underneath carries across the remaining slides. Text reads: “Katrina Was Only the Beginning.” Below: “On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. Communities were not only exposed to the devastating impacts of the hurricane, but also to the systemic failures in disaster response that followed, leaving disabled people and other marginalized communities especially vulnerable.” A black-and-white satellite image of Hurricane Katrina is in the bottom right. Photo: NESDIS.NOAA.GOV. S3- Text reads: “What Hurricane Katrina Exposed.” Below: “The National Council on Disability estimated that around 155,000 disabled people over age 5 lived in Biloxi, Mobile, and New Orleans, the three cities hardest hit by Katrina. That was roughly 25% of their combined population, or about 1 in 4 people.” Additional text reads: “Hurricane Katrina exposed how deeply disaster response systems can fail disabled people. From evacuation to sheltering and recovery, disabled people were left vulnerable not only to the storm, but to systems that failed to plan, protect, and support them.” A black-and-white photo of a damaged building is in the bottom right. Source: NCD.gov. Descriptions continued in comments.