Emphysema Emphysema is a chronic lung condition that causes shortness of breath, a chronic cough, wheezing, and more. Atrial fibrillation Atrial fibrillation is a heart condition that causes heart palpitations, confusion, dizziness and more.
Email. Hurricane Sandy is expected to affect between 50 million and 60 million people, emergency management and weather officials warned Saturday afternoon.
Katrina exacerbated these conditions, and left many of New Orleansâs poorest citizens even more vulnerable than they had been before the storm. In all, Hurricane Katrina killed nearly 2,000 people and affected some 90,000 square miles of the United States. Hundreds of thousands of evacuees scattered far and wide.