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...this raises the question: Should Americans continue to pour so much money into a single nonprofit known more for first response than for long-term rebuilding? "The beauty of the nonprofit sector is its diversity," says Borochoff. "Americans need to figure out that they should use the Red Cross, but don't use the whole wad. Save it for some other groups...
...doesn't take that long. In the morning, the U.S. and Kurdish special forces begin moving north, toward Sarai, through the stone-paved alleyways. Within minutes, they are ambushed. The U.S. commanders rush machine-gun teams to the rooftops to pour out suppressing fire as the others advance below, clearing houses as they go. Anguished families come rushing out, caught in the cross fire and herded by the soldiers to the relative safety of the edge of town. A little girl cups her ears with her hands and wails each time firing breaks out. A 5-year-old boy gingerly...
Plug the holes, power the pumps ... As repair crews descended on the inundated city, the first step was to plug the breaches that let Lake Pontchartrain pour in. Less than two weeks after the storm, the major breaches had been filled, primarily with sandbags dropped from helicopters. Next, workers began getting power to the city's electric pumps...
...when it looked as if the threat had passed. Several hours after the storm moved through on Monday, some streets were essentially dry. Then shortly after midnight, a section almost as long as a football field in a main levee near the 17th Street Canal ruptured, letting Lake Pontchartrain pour in. The city itself turned into a superbowl, roadways crumbled like soup crackers as the levees designed to protect them were now holding the water in. Engineers tried dropping 3,000-lb. sandbags, but the water just swallowed them. As the days passed, the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversees...
...seething center of the angry Crescent City was the Superdome, refuge of utterly last resort for 25,000 people who had waited out the worst of the storm while the sheet-metal roof peeled like fruit, letting the rains pour in. Soon there was no light, no air, no working toilets. Reports came that four of the weakest died that first night. An elderly man, playing cards and seemingly fine, threw himself over a railing inside the stadium and committed suicide, witnesses told TV reporters. Members of the city's EMS team made their way there only to find anarchy...