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Hard Times For 'The Big Easy'
Hard Times For 'The Big Easy'
VV ’05
The Location of New Orleans
Mississippi River
Florida
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of
Mexico
Mississippi Delta
Lake Pontchartrin
Mississippi River
New Orleans : some facts
Shop keepers
boarded up
their windows
Volunteers
helped to fill
sandbags
South of New Orleans on the Gulf coast
180 km winds cause huge damage
Downtown
New Orleans
at the height
of the storm
on 29 August
…are trapped in
their homes.
Phillip Holt, 51
New Orleans evacuee