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Stranded at the Superdome

Residents awaited buses outside the Superdome that would take them to safety on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Credit: The Dallas Morning News
On Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005, as many as 45,000 survivors are trapped in and around the Superdome and convention center. The first buses arrive at the Superdome to take evacuees to the Astrodome in Houston, 355 miles away.

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Memorial Medical Center nurse Mary Jo D'amico fans a patient waiting in the hospital's parking garage for helicopter transport from New Orleans on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Credit: BRAD LOPER/The Dallas Morning News

Posted by Oscar Martinez on September 1, 2006 06:00 AM |