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New Orleans Archdiocese: Forever changed by Hurricane Katrina
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 23:10
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Peter Finney Jr. | Catholic News Service
NEW ORLEANS — They are calling it “Kat 10″ — Hurricane Katrina plus 10 years — which carries with it the double meaning of an ominous meteorological warning.
How could a Category 5 storm that engulfed the entire Gulf of Mexico but dropped in intensity to a Category 3 just before landfall on Aug. 29, 2005 — burying one of the world's most iconic cities in a flood of biblical proportions — become the watershed moment in New Orleans' nearly 300-year history?
Source: http://stlouisreview.com/article/2015-08-26/new-orleans
