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Hurricane Georges
Title: Hurricane Georges
Category: History
Details: Words: 2068 | Pages: 8.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hurricane Georges
Hurricane Georges
A very massive group of levees may be all that
is in the way of lower lying New
Orleans and destruction with a visit from Hurricane
Georges. Without the levee system
and concrete flood walls Georges could have catastrophic
effects in New Orleans. But
with this man-made hurricane protection system protecting
the city people. New
Orleans is spared the casualties and damage past storms
have wrought. The levee system
is important because the …showed first 75 words of 2068 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2068 total…it flooded houses, then deposited tons of sand on top
of the ready-for-harvest rice
fields. Each fall, in the rainy season, sand washes into
Salifoudret and the residents gather
it to sell to construction companies for a truckload.
The deposits have never been as
big as this year, residents said, as dozens loaded 150-
pound baskets of sand on their
heads and sorted it into 6-foot piles along the riverbed so
trucks could cart it away.
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