In The Eye Of The Storm

Rick Wilking, New Orleans

In The Eye Of The Storm
Tue, 30 Aug, 2005 - 01:00

New Orleans, a bowl-shaped city that sits below sea level, took a powerful blow from Katrina’s 135mph winds when the storm came ashore from the Gulf of Mexico and roared along the coast into Mississippi and Alabama.

Officials said three people from a New Orleans nursing home had died during their evacuation.

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