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Katrina: Two years later
2007-08-28
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Associated Press has created a multimedia snapshot of the area in New Orleans devastated by Katrina, with audio slideshows on daily life in neighborhoods ranging from the Lower Ninth Ward to upscale Lakeview.

NEW ORLEANS — A new report says schools and playgrounds flooded by Hurricane Katrina were contaminated by high levels of arsenic when flood waters poured into this below-sea level city.

2007-08-26
Two years after Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters forced her from that house near Napoleon and Claiborne avenues, Ernestine Carter still lives in a government-provided travel trailer near Baker. Row after row of the metal dwellings — intended as temporary housing — still sit in the gravel lot north of Baton Rouge, their air conditioners hummin

NEW ORLEANS — Two years after Hurricane Katrina, more than 27,000 FEMA trailers still dot the landscape in the southeastern tip of Louisiana. Two years on, 150,000 people from New Orleans remain scattered across the nation, and St. Bernard Parish’s population is only half of what it was before the storm.

NEW ORLEANS — Two years after Hurricane Katrina, much of the city still lies in ruins. But Otis Biggs’ task as he shuffles his Tarot deck this moist August day is to peer into the future to 2015, the storm’s 10th anniversary. Rings of silver and turquoise flash as one card, then another flops onto a zodiac-patterned table in the incense-perfumed Bottom of the Cup Tea Room in the French Quarter, where the diminutive Biggs has been telling fortunes for 32 years. Downtown, near the riverfront, Biggs sees a gleaming glass and steel tower rising, the tallest in the state. Elections will bring new blood and vision. Companies will feel safe to invest in the city, and most of those who fled will return. “There’s hope,” Biggs says, his hazel eyes twinkling in light reflected through a crystal ball.



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