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On The Dock Of The Dome

Frederick Cerise is secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.

AVOIDING LOW-LYING ROADS and dodging power lines, driving a circuitous twenty-five miles to make what should have been a five-mile trip, it took our group until Monday evening to reach the Superdome. As night fell, the water kept rising. Monday night and Tuesday were spent relocating the elderly and infirm from the dark and wet intestines of the Superdome to the dry, sunlit concourses of the adjacent basketball arena. The Dome had become an island, as had a number of the city’s hospitals.

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