Word: lakefront
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...tons of spume 20 feet or higher into the air. Water streamed down the windows of shoreside high-rises. Inside, chandeliers swayed and furniture trembled. These vivid scenes were not of a city on the Gulf Coast in the midst of a hurricane. Instead, the locale was Chicago's lakefront last week, and no hurricane was involved. The storm was just a late autumn blow...
...Army Corps of Engineers, the people the Federal Government calls when it wants to build something big. Some 1,580 Corps workers have come to the Gulf to fix what Katrina broke; it's the agency's biggest disaster response ever. During a visit to the New Orleans lakefront Thursday, the Vice President asserted after a short tour that "we're making significant progress." The engineers on the ground, those who work in the dross and stench every day, agree, but they also privately say they have barely begun. Not because they aren't working hard. Among the dozen Corps...
Helicopters airlifted the sick from around the city to the airport, converted into a field hospital where patients were being pushed around on luggage carts and triaged for evacuation. At Lakefront Airport on the edge of the city, fights broke out for seats on the departing choppers. "The gang bangers," said Jimmy Dennis, 34, a Lakefront Airport fire fighter who had been up for two nights trying to keep order, "couldn't understand that we had to get the sick people out first." Frightened, the small band of fire fighters called in 10 New Orleans police with semiautomatic weapons...
...that evening, seven helicopters from the Air Force Reserve 920th Rescue Wing out of Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., had ferried hundreds of refugees onto the runway at New Orleans Lakefront Airport, where they waited in darkness to go somewhere, anywhere. Beside them, Colonel Tim Tarchick, the wing commander, screamed into his satellite phone at someone from the Emergency Operations Center. "I've got 1,000 people who have been dropped here. We're out of food, and they're starting to get tense. We need security. It's like frickin' Baghdad here. You have to take control," he yelled...
...Among the many awaiting evacuation at Lakefront was Dorothy Route, 80. Accompanied by her two-year old dachshund Shadow and her brother Van Laurant, 78, who has alzheimers, she had run into looters while trying to drive through the waters out of the city. They had very charitably given her raw chicken taken from a freezer of a Church's chicken restaurant. But then they stripped her red Jeep Cherokee of its battery. The car eventually went underwater. Rescued by chopper, she and Shadow, were trying to make sure Van didn't wander off. "He don't know what happened...