Hurricane Katrina: Survivors and Heroes

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Sandy Schaefer

"If you've ever seen The Wizard of Oz, when Dorothy is unconscious and she sees the Witch pedaling by and all that stuff, that's the way it was. You'd see a piece of tarpaper go by, then you'd see part of a roof go by, then you'd see some siding go by."

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