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Kinship Circle - 2008-01-20 - SBP Dogs Shot In The Streets 03 Kinship Circle - 2008-01-20 - SBP Dogs Shot In The Streets 03 Kinship Circle - 2008-01-20 - SBP Dogs Shot In The Streets 03	'It's Horrible': Rescue Efforts Underway as Hurricane Isaac Pummels Gulf Coast 'It's Horrible': Rescue Efforts Underway as Hurricane Isaac Pummels Gulf Coast There were no reports of injuries but dozens of residents of Plaquemines Parish, La., were stranded atop a levee, while there were multiple reports of people trapped in attics by rising waters. Thus far, fewer people were evacuated than during ...	Assumption Parish: Officials brace for brunt of storm Assumption Parish: Officials brace for brunt of storm The Louisiana State Police said a three-vehicle crash claimed the life of a 56-year-old man Monday evening. He was ... It is estimated that Assumption Parish is out of hurricane force winds by 7:00 p.m and out of tropical storm force winds at 11:00 p.m ...	HURRICANE ISAAC CONTINUES TO POUNDS LOUISIANA, EVACUATIONS ... HURRICANE ISAAC CONTINUES TO POUNDS LOUISIANA, EVACUATIONS ... Isaac forced the closures of major roadways throughout the area, including U.S. 90 at the Jefferson Parish/St. Charles Parish line, the causeway over Lake Pontchartrain and LA-73 south of Plaquemines, he said. Besides dealing with downed trees across ...
WATCH: Hurricane Isaac batters Gulf Coast WATCH: Hurricane Isaac batters Gulf Coast BATON ROUGE, La. (WLS) - Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal says coastal officials may intentionally break a levee on the east bank of flooded Plaquemines Parish to relieve pressure on the structure. At a news conference in Baton Rouge, Jindal said there's no ...	Isaac Menaces Gulf States; Forces Evacuations, Closings; Serious Flooding ... Isaac Menaces Gulf States; Forces Evacuations, Closings; Serious Flooding ... Tropical Storm Isaac closed in on the U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast on Monday, triggering some mandatory evacuation orders and disrupting U.S. offshore oil production as it threatened to make landfall between Florida and Louisiana as a full-blown hurricane ...	Hurricane Katrina, Isaac Comparisons Drawn As Storm Hits Louisiana Hurricane Katrina, Isaac Comparisons Drawn As Storm Hits Louisiana Isaac: Isaac has been much less organized with a less-defined eye. As it neared Louisiana's coast, Isaac's hurricane force winds extend outward only about 60 miles from its center. .... Parnell Latham, who refused to obey a mandatory evacuation order ...	Live Updates: Nearing hurricane force, Isaac 2012 path threatens Louisiana ... Live Updates: Nearing hurricane force, Isaac 2012 path threatens Louisiana ... Still, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center warned that Isaac, especially if it strikes at high tide, could cause storm surges of up to 12 feet along low-lying areas including south Lafourche Parish, where hurricane veteran Windell Curole kept ...
Gov. Jindal urges citizens to take precautions, evacuate Gov. Jindal urges citizens to take precautions, evacuate We also may see some tornado activity around Tuesday and Wednesday. Hurricane force wind probabilities are now 20 to 30 percent in Southeast Louisiana south of Tidal Lakes and 10 to 18 percent north of tidal lakes, River Parishes and Baton Rouge area.	Isaac near hurricane force off US Gulf Coast Isaac near hurricane force off US Gulf Coast Forecasts from the U.S. National Hurricane Center showed the storm barreling ashore late on Tuesday or early Wednesday near southeastern Louisiana. Energy companies evacuated offshore oil rigs and shut down U.S. Gulf Coast refineries as the storm ...	Mandatory evacuations outside New Orleans as Isaac nears hurricane strength Mandatory evacuations outside New Orleans as Isaac nears hurricane strength Parts of Lafourche, St. Charles, St. John parishes saw mandatory evacuations as well. The governors of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi declared states of emergency as a hurricane warning went into effect for a 300-mile swath that extended into Florida.	Hurricane Isaac updates for Jefferson Parish Hurricane Isaac updates for Jefferson Parish METAIRIE, La. (AP) -- Jefferson Parish officials say winds from Hurricane Isaac have downed power lines and trees in the New Orleans suburb and heavy rainfall has caused minor street flooding. Spokeswoman Kriss Fortunato said no injuries had been ...
Isaac near hurricane force Isaac near hurricane force NEW ORLEANS — Tropical Storm Isaac was near hurricane force as it bore down on the US Gulf Coast yesterday and was expected to make landfall in the New Orleans area seven years after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Isaac's swirling winds, rain ...	Mandatory evacuation for St. Charles Parish Mandatory evacuation for St. Charles Parish The latest forecast have the storm making landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River and heading directly over St. Charles Parish as a Category 2 hurricane with winds of up to 100 mph. ... Current forecasts call for the parish to begin ...	Photos: Hurricane Isaac makes landfall in Louisiana Photos: Hurricane Isaac makes landfall in Louisiana ... New Orleans, Louisiana, August 28, 2012. Tropical Storm Isaac was near hurricane force as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday and was expected to make landfall in the New Orleans area seven years after it was devastated by Hurricane ...	Hurricane Isaac update for Assumption Parish Hurricane Isaac update for Assumption Parish Hurricane Isaac is creeping along as it makes its way inland into Louisiana. It is moving NW still at only 6 mph. Maximum sustained winds ... Information from Assumption Parish Police JuryA voluntary evacuation of low lying areas is still in effect ...
State-by-State: Isaac spurs evacuations, delays State-by-State: Isaac spurs evacuations, delays New Orleans authorities expect Isaac to hit the city as a Category 1 hurricane early Wednesday, with tropical storm-force winds arriving shortly after midnight Monday, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said. -- Landrieu ... Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has called ...

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Isaac News: New Orleans Levee Holding; Flooding Reported

4 hours ago ... Hurricane Isaac is now spinning over the southern Louisiana, bringing heavy rain , hurricane-force wind gusts and 10 to 12 feet storm surge. ... southeastern La., ordered evacuations Sunday for parish`s 53,000 residents.

A Mythical Bayous All-Too-Real Peril

MONTEGUT, La. THE 29-year-old filmmaker Benh Zeitlin has an intuitive way of letting real people and places work their way into the mythical stories of his imagination. His short film Glory at Sea (2008) is about a band of mourners who build a boat from storm debris and rescue their loved ones trapped underwater. Mr. Zeitlin, a Queens native, - Benh Zeitlin film Beast of the Southern Wild may take place in a mythical bayou town, but its focus on ecological threats, especially to the city of New Orleans where the movie was shot, is all too real. Photos (M) - By RACHEL ARONS

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... outer bands as early as 1 p.m. on Tuesday. Assumption Parish is expecting 60-80 mph winds with gusts of 100 mph. ... WAFB 9 News Baton Rouge, Louisiana News, Weather, SportsAssumption Parish: Officials brace for brunt of storm. SITE SEARCH WEB SEARCH BY Google .... It is estimated that Assumption Parish is out of hurricane force winds by 7:00 p.m and out of tropical storm force winds at 11:00 p.m. tonight. Please heed the curfew that is currently in effect.

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May make landfall as hurricane on eve of Katrina anniversary * Gulf coast residents brace for storm, many evacuate * Storm may test post-Katrina flood control system By Scott Malone and Kathy Finn NEW ORLEANS, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Isaac was near hurricane force as it bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday and was expected to make landfall in the New Orleans area seven years after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Isaac's swirling ...

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As it neared Louisiana's coast, Isaac's hurricane force winds extend outward only about 60 miles from its center. STORM SURGE ... Many did not heed the evacuation order and later had to be rescued from flooded homes.

Thesis Statement/Formal Proposition?

What is the formal proposition (thesis statement) in this article? I need help. =( Hurricane Gustav gave the state of Louisiana a test for which it had three years to prepare. There were thousands of poor, sick, disabled and elderly people who could not get out on their own. They needed to be rescued with dispatch, and sheltered in safety and dignity. One simple test. The state flunked. Three years to the week after Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, Louisiana executed a fundamentally unfair evacuation plan and did it badly. It relied on dividing the population into separate streams: People with their own cars were directed to shelters run by parishes, churches and the Red Cross. People with medical problems not requiring hospitalization were taken to special shelters. Sex offenders had a shelter to themselves. All those without a car or a ride were taken on state buses to four state-run warehouses. It was in these shelters, including two abandoned stores, a Wal-Mart and a Sam’s Club, that thousands of working-poor New Orleanians got a sickening reminder of Katrina. Evacuees said they had had no idea where they were going; bus drivers would not tell them. When they arrived, there were not enough portable toilets, and no showers. For five days there was no way to bathe, except with bottled water in filthy outdoor toilets. Privacy in the vast open space — 1,000 people to a warehouse, shoulder-to-shoulder on cots — was nonexistent. The mood among evacuees was grim, surrounded as they were by police officers and the National Guard, with no visitors or reporters allowed. “We didn’t want to evacuate into a prison,” Lethia Brooks told the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, an organization that accompanied the evacuees, inspected the shelters and collected hundreds of stories into a report sharply critical of the state’s response. Gustav ended up being no Katrina, and the week of suffering was not as severe as the deathly mayhem of three years ago. But residents had every right to expect far better treatment than they received. After a week of indignities in crowded, unsanitary shelters, many returned home with their fragile finances in turmoil. They had been forced to buy extra basics while out of their homes, and September rent was due. The secretary of Louisiana’s Department of Social Services, which was responsible for the shelters, resigned after this scandal and one involving problems with food stamp distribution. Now, many poor residents are vowing “never again,” as in, “Never again will we get on the bus to be warehoused. We’ll ride out the next storm.” In New Orleans, disaster is never far away, and government incompetence cannot be allowed to undermine a swift, sure evacuation. Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration should move quickly on a better plan that does not expose the poor to differential, substandard treatment.
Answer: I`d say it`s "The state flunked." The rest of the article can be seen as supporting details for why the author felt Louisiana failed to pass the test of the hurricane.
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STORM AND CRISIS: THE OVERVIEW; New Orleans Begins a Search for Its Dead

Troops patrolled the streets, rescuers hunted for stragglers and New Orleans looked like a wrecked ghost town yesterday as the evacuation of the city neared completion and the authorities turned to the grim task of collecting bodies in a ghastly landscape awash in numberless corpses. In a city riven by violence for a week, there was yet another - By ROBERT D. McFADDEN; Reporting for this article was contributed by Jeremy Alford, Sewell Chan and Michael Luo from Baton Rouge, La., and John DeSantis, Christopher Drew and Joseph B. Treaster from New Orleans.

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