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Bells toll 1 year after Katrina hit

by SP on August 29th, 2006

“NEW ORLEANS - Bells tolled in this shattered city Tuesday morning, marking the moment one year earlier when New Orleans’ levees buckled and unleashed a torrent of water that ripped homes from their foundations and sent tens of thousands of residents into an uncertain exile.

As the bells pealed, survivors of the storm gathered outside City Hall, commemorating the moment at 9:38 a.m. when New Orleans began its spiral into a watery hell.”

I remember watching all of it on TV last year but I can’t even imagine what it must have been like for people who actually lived there. How do you put your lives back together again after something like that??

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