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Key Excerpts from Article on Website of National Geographic October 2004 Issue
National Geographic October 2004 Issue, October 0, 2004
Posted: November 23rd, 2006
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5
Posted: November 23rd, 2006
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5
As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, howeverthe car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. When did this calamity happen? It hasn'tyet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. "It's not if it will happen," says University of New Orleans geologist Shea Penland. "It's when."
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