Direct Hit in New Orleans Could Mean a Modern Atlantis
More than 1.2 million people in metropolitan New Orleans were warned to get out Tuesday as [the] 140-mph hurricane churned toward the Gulf coast, threatening to submerge this below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years.
-- Headline & opening paragraph, USA Today, September 14, 2004 as Hurricane Ivan approached New Orleans
The evacuation of New Orleans in the face of [the] hurricane ... looked sinisterly like Strom Thurmond's version of the Rapture. Affluent white people fled the Big Easy in their SUVs, while the old and car-less -- mainly Black -- were left behind in their below-sea-level shotgun shacks and aging tenements to face the watery wrath.
-- Mike Davis, TomDispatch (www.tomdispatch.com), September, 2004
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