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| | Responding in Faith to Hurricane Katrina |
 | | The next morning Hurricane Katrina smashed into the Gulf Coast, breaching the city’s levees and flooding most of the city. |
 | | One hundred thousand residents, many of them poor and African American, were trapped in their houses without food, water, electricity or the means to communicate with the outside world. |
 | | During and after the hurricane, 25,000 residents – most of them women, children, elderly, and frail, nearly all of them poor and African American – packed the Superdome stadium, suffering in the heat, darkness and stench. |
| www.bread.org /learn/us-hunger-issues/hurricane-katrina-background.html (1759 words) |
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