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...Every government building in Hancock County has been destroyed. Half of the local work force has no house to go home to. A firefighter who had recovered remains from the World Trade Center crater told me picking through the 12-foot-high piles of flotsam stacked a quarter mile inland along the Mississippi coast is like working at ground zero, "only this is 80 miles long...
...team of firemen on their own and started working anyway even though the official permissions still haven't come through two weeks later. They expect to be going through the debris for months. And the National Guard has run a razor wire fence along the railroad tracks, a half-mile inland along to keep looters and the curious away from what has become both an arduous recovery effort and a health hazard. In the wreckage over the weekend, the bodies of a woman and her baby were recovered, the child still strapped to her chest. Helicopters shuttle back and forth...
Often, however, Ridolfi must make the 50-mile trek from Worcester to Cambridge...
...running water. Rather, the simple immensity of the task has astonished even the most experienced Corps engineers. When Colonel Richard Wagenaar, the Corps' New Orleans commander, first tried to approach the flooded 17th Street Canal as the storm was subsiding, he couldn't get within half a mile of it because of all the water and downed electrical lines...