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Rev. Yarbrough sent us this link to an interactive, moment-by-moment reenactment of the flooding in New Orleans the day Katrina hit. It makes clear in the most visual of ways how devastating - and immediate - the destruction was.
It just makes my heart ache.
http://www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/flashflood.swf
Yesterday I had the honor of attending a meeting of The Gulf Coast Connection here in Pittsburgh, an association of about 200 former residents of the Gulf Coast who relocated to Western PA after Katrina and Rita.
The Gulf Coast Connection is run by a force of nature named Lurline Cadogan, a resident of New Orleans […]