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Mardi Gras 2004 in New Orleans (Video)
Video of carnival revelers enjoying the festivities down on Bourbon Street from Mardi Gras 2004 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Disaster Profiteering: Hurricane Katrina and the Haiti Earthquake
As we New Orleanians learned after during and after Hurricane Katrina, unscrupulous disaster victims, recovery contractors, politically-connected corporations and even government officials think nothing of the further exploitation of the profoundly vulnerable disaster victims. Between the looters, the fraudulent contractors and insurance companies, the scandalously corrupt Governor Kathleen Blanco and her handlers at the Shaw Group, the predators why prey on disaster victims come from all walks of life and steal from those who have just lost everything. Unfortunately for the survivors of the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti, their plight is not over yet, as many will undoubtedly be targeted for further exploitation by those claimin ...

Hurricane Katrina's Toll on Trees in Southeast Louisiana
One of the lesser-known stories from Hurricane Katrina is the toll that the Category 5 storm and its legion of tornadoes took on trees in Southeast Louisiana. Entire forests were decimated, with seemingly immortal, giant live oak trees uprooted as though they were made of feathers.