Word: bayou
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...water rose, Barnes, a concrete finisher, climbed into the attic and then onto his roof, then used his belt to strap himself to the top of a pine tree. "You could hear the tornadoes roaring," he says. When the flood abated, he discovered a neighbor's corpse. Bayou mud left little in his house to salvage. But he thinks he'll find work...
...first days after the storm we dug on our lots like archeologists, searching for scraps and pieces of our past. My most treasured possession dug from the bayou is a lamp I bought from a Biloxi estate five years ago. My youngest stepson found it in the marsh behind my house, completely intact. The next day, search and rescue crews found the body of another neighbor nearby...
...effect or the dampness of the troposphere as they hunker down during hurricane Katrina this morning. They?re mostly thinking about the savage rains and 140 mph winds that have driven them from their homes. But it?s that meteorological arcana that?s made such a mess of the bayou, and to hear a lot of people tell it, we have only ourselves-and our global-warming ways-to blame...
...outdoor season began, Harvard traveled south to compete in the Bayou Classic in early April. That meet was followed up with impressive showings at the Brown Invitational...
...Bayou Classic—hosted by Rice University—the Crimson men took sixth with individual wins by junior Samyr Laine and junior Kevin Duffy. Overall, the team ended up with 48 points, not far from winner Texas’ 68.5 points...