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Forum: Share Your Thoughts
Photograph by Robert Sullivan, AFP/Getty
Was the Federal Emergency Management Agency too slow to respond? What is to become of the thousands of displaced people who have been welcomed into other cities? And what are your experiences and thoughts about this natural catastrophe? Tell us your opinion in our forum.
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Hurricanes
By Chris Carroll, Composite Image by Harold F. Pierce, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
August 2005
Last year's record hurricane season may have been just the beginning. Forecasters predict the Atlantic seaboard could be in for decades of relentless pounding. Find out more from our full-text article, photo gallery, multimedia, and more.
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The Big Uneasy
By Joel K. Bourne, Jr., Photographs by Robert Caputo and Tyrone Turner
October 2004
In October 2004, National Geographic prophetically explored a doomsday hurricane scenario for New Orleans: "As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however—the carless, the homeless, the aged, and infirm." Read more of the article's eerie predications. |
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