Word: mud
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...Hagan walked out to Flood Street-a moonscape of cracked mud, debris and ghostly cars that drifted in on the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina-slipped the surgical mask off her face and turned back to look at her devastated home. "It's even worse in there than I thought it would be, and I can't find any pictures or memories," said Hagan, 40. "But I'm still going to rebuild. I was born and raised here. I ain't leavin...
...Harvard men’s cross country team finished second and the women placed fourth at the New England Championships this past weekend at Franklin Park in Boston. The rain and mud made for a more difficult course, but did not keep the Crimson men from finishing with only 146 points in a field of 47 schools, a distant second to Brown’s remarkable 40 points. Several schools, inluding Yale, held out a number of their top runners in both the men’s and women’s races in preparation for the NCAA Pre-National...
...including an artillery battery swamped by a mudslide, still vainly pointing toward Pakistan 10 miles away. There are three or four checkpoints. Then a landslide announces the end of the road and an end to any visible relief effort. We leave our driver and are confronted by a black mud slick that extends to a peak more than 3,000 ft. above. "Are you looking for dead bodies?" asks a young man carrying a box on his shoulders. He points to the slide. "There are 90 dead bodies in that." Tawoos Hussain Manhas, 20, is a civil servant who works...
...strong, it moved houses--their concrete foundations still attached--down streets. The parish president, who lost his home like everyone else did, figures there is just one habitable house left out of 25,000 in the entire parish. Even the homes that "survived" Katrina are foul with mud, mold and nests of water moccasins. From 50% to 80% of the parish may be so structurally unsound, it will have to be razed...
...over the devastated parish, families are trying to decide whether to stay or move on. "At first, people think they're going to fix their homes," says councilwoman Judy Hoffmeister, shaking her head as she watches a friend, Calvin Melerine, 66, shovel mud from his two-story home and ditch one piece of furniture after another. "They come in with U-Hauls, and they're lucky if they leave with a garbage bag full," she says. At her house around the block, Hoffmeister plans to rescue some bronzed baby shoes, but she turns away in tears at the door after...