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Katrina hits US Gulf Coast
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-08-31 14:19

Katrina hits US Gulf Coast

Power poles are pushed over in a flooded street after Hurricane Katrina struck Gretna, Louisiana August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, battering the historic jazz city New Orleans, swamping resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater and stranding people on rooftops. [Reuters]

 
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