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...western edge of the Mississippi coast, where Katrina lifted the ocean up and deposited barges in the middle of neighborhoods, every police car is gone. The towns of Bay St. Louis and Waveland are all but wiped off the map. 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...
...over two more wrenching weeks in September, weve watched those very images repeat themselves in New Orleans and Mississippi, and we cant help but wonder if that promise of never again was made to be broken by our government...
According to the American Council of Education, 175,000 students are enrolled in colleges in the storm-ravaged areas of Southern Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama...
...devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina have stunned us all,” Kirby wrote in his letter. “The loss of life, destruction of property, and unimaginably severe conditions that remain in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, are profoundly saddening. Our thoughts, prayers, and sympathies are with all those who have suffered from the storm and its aftermath, and naturally we want to do what we can as a university to help...
...FEMA head Michael Brown seemed to know less about the unfolding disaster than the average viewer of Fox News or CNN. But, please, spare the outlandish rhetoric, demagoguery, unsubstantiated speculation, and race-based bile. It is true that the Louisiana National Guard does have troops in Iraq, but the Mississippi National Guard has an even larger percentage of its forces overseas, and looting was virtually non-existent in the latter state while epidemic in the former. It is true that the funding for levy projects in New Orleans was cut, but the actual levies that failed were recently reconstructed...