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Originally posted by Spanky
Hurricane Katrina
The shaming of America
Sep 8th 2005
From The Economist print edition
Local incompetence exacerbated the disaster: in Orleans Parish, for instance, where 60,000 households do not own a car, hundreds of city buses which might have shipped out stranded people were left to be swamped by the rising waters.
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Is Orleans Parish part of New Orleans? This is a serious question -- I don't get this whole "parish" thing, but I would guess that Orleans Parish is not under the jurisdiction of the Mayor of New Orleans.
