Undergraduate / Hurricane Katrina, summer 2007 - New Orleans suffered great tolls. [3]

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"After Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans suffered great tolls. This I knew from the news channels. So, during the summer before junior year high school, my youth group and I went New Orleans to help with the relief. But, since it was already two years after the actual incident, none of us actually was committed to working. Rather, we expected to see the festive streets of New Orleans and busy lights in their football stadium. We thought there would be many tourists and that the city would be smoothly running like it was before the Hurricane.