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Angel
Flight America reunites hundreds of
Hurricane Katrina victims with their
families
Spectacular
photos
of Katrina
Morgue
units preparing as Katrina's dead uncovered
The
bodies are arriving in a trickle right now at the makeshift morgue
in the small town of St. Gabriel, La. But Louis Cataldie and his crew of
forensic
specialists know that more are coming.
The
Water Gives Up its Dead
Receding
floodwaters in a suburban New Orleans parish revealed
what many fear could be the first of many such discoveries
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more than 30 bodies in a nursing home that was swamped in Hurricane
Katrina and its aftermath. Meanwhile, there are reports
that 25,000 body bags have been sent to the state.
Economic
impact will be widespread
As
New Orleans deals with the storm waters that broke its levees last
week,
dozens of Southern cities from Baton Rouge to Pensacola are coping with
a
displaced populace numbering in the hundreds of thousands and awaiting
the
spillover of billions of dollars in disaster aid
More
than buildings will have to be rebuilt
Rebuilding
New Orleans' infrastructure will likely cost billions and take
years.
Hurricane Katrina's impact on the Big Easy's glorious cultural heritage
and spirit
may be more difficult, if not impossible, to restore
Waves
of evacuees swamp host cities
Many of
the 500,000 displaced by Hurricane Katrina may never return
to what was home; country hasn't seen such mass movements of refugees
since
Southerners fled Civil War armies
Firefighting
gear stockpile unused
Centuries-old
levees fail to hold back water
"there was
sort of a cross-your-fingers mentality."
N.O.
in Photos
Fats
Domino Rescued in New Orleans
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