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Building after building under water.{{U}} (36)
{{/U}}in shelters. Thousands of others unsure where to go.{{U}} (37)
{{/U}}for help. Anarchy. Bodies in streets. This is what one of America’s
historic cities was{{U}} (38) {{/U}}to this week by a powerful storm,
Katrina.
Officials want everyone still left in New Orleans,
Louisiana, to leave for now. The{{U}} (39) {{/U}}of New Orleans says
thousands may be dead.{{U}} (40) {{/U}}Katrina also caused death and{{U}}
(41) {{/U}}in parts of Mississippi and Alabama along the Gulf of
Mexico. Federal officials reported Friday that more than one million five
hundred thousand homes and businesses{{U}} (42) {{/U}}without electric
power.
New Orleans is famous for its wild Mardi Gras{{U}}
(43) {{/U}}and night life in the French Quarter.{{U}} (44)
{{/U}}. New Orleans has depended on levees, dams made of earth, to control
floods from the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain.