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The Truth About Katrina Relief: Dispatches from the George R. Brown Convention Center Calm after the storm Like everyone else in America I watched the Hurricane Katrina disaster unfold on TV in horror. If you live in the Gulf Coast states long enough you will see hurricanes and floods destroy cities and towns but this one was different. Directly following the storm the damage seemed to be minimal for a storm of this magnitude. Many of us breathed a sigh of relief. But then the levies broke and created a whole new kind of disaster – a hurricane ravaged city being...