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September 13, 2005

'Get Off The F---ing Freeway': The Sinking State Loots its Own Survivors

Two paramedics stranded in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina give their account of self-organisation and abandonment in the disaster zone. Sherri sent this along, and said it matches the accounts she heard from other New Orleans evacuees.

Mother Nature's wrath was only the beginning of what these folks endured. Click here to read it.