Word: baton
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...Katrina gained strength, researchers at L.S.U.'s Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes ran the numbers through their storm-surge models. Around 7 p.m. Saturday, on the giant screen looming over the Emergency Operations Center in Baton Rouge, they posted the sum of all fears: New Orleans would go under. Everyone knew what that meant: a major water rescue of untold thousands. The next morning, with the storm less than 24 hours away, the team talked to federal health officials about the potential for disease from the rising waters. At midday Sunday, according to TIME...
...Keefe apologized for a campus-wide e-mail Thursday, September 1 entitled “Civil Unrest in Baton Rouge” that spread unconfirmed rumors of shoot-outs and robberies across the campus and the capitol city, worsening tension between the local population, largely white, and the refugees who are largely low-income and black...
...BATON ROUGE, La.—The campus of Louisiana State University (LSU) has morphed from a picturesque academic haven to a full-blown refugee center this week in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
Instead, the volunteer promised to ferry the family to her home in Iota, La. She was living in her daughter’s apartment in Baton Rouge. “There’s no power but you can all be together,” she said...
...evacuated with a friend on Saturday night, joining the traffic on I-10 to Baton Rouge. There, she joined her family at her home, but she didn’t know about her fellow students, 80 percent of whom are from New Orleans...