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In New Orleans, Sounds of Jazz Have Faded
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin paused. A military helicopter was clattering thunderously overhead.
“You know," he said when the ruckus died down. “The sounds of New Orleans were jazz, people laughing, people eating a good meal. And now the sounds of New Orleans are helicopters and army vehicles. This is almost surreal."
A city once known for its bacchanalian diversions and Bohemian elegance, New Orleans today is a place of uniforms and guns, helicopters and airboats, and dark, scary nights.
Convoys of military trucks, Humvees and commandeered buses, some at least 100 vehicles long, lumber through town and cut their way carefully through two feet of water where the highways dip. Police cars, their lights flashing silently, cruise emptied streets.
Gone are the crowds of frantic, chanting people waiting to be rescued around the city's Convention Center for days after Hurricane Katrina struck.
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“You know," he said when the ruckus died down. “The sounds of New Orleans were jazz, people laughing, people eating a good meal. And now the sounds of New Orleans are helicopters and army vehicles. This is almost surreal."
A city once known for its bacchanalian diversions and Bohemian elegance, New Orleans today is a place of uniforms and guns, helicopters and airboats, and dark, scary nights.
Convoys of military trucks, Humvees and commandeered buses, some at least 100 vehicles long, lumber through town and cut their way carefully through two feet of water where the highways dip. Police cars, their lights flashing silently, cruise emptied streets.
Gone are the crowds of frantic, chanting people waiting to be rescued around the city's Convention Center for days after Hurricane Katrina struck.
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