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Sat 05 May 2010First the Flood, now the Spill
Almost five years after Hurricane Katrina, much of New Orleans remain desolate and neglected. Now, as 210,000 gallons of oil gush into the Gulf of Mexico every day, the city faces a fresh calamity, writes LARA MARLOWEin New Orleans
THE STORM. The Exodus. The Return. Now: The Spill. Residents of New Orleans sum up their plight in one-word titles with Biblical resonance. In an ironic linguistic twist, oil spills, like hurricanes, “make landfall”.
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