New Orleans Says Residents Can Return Thursday
What a difference three years made. It also helped that Gustav was a category three rather than category five hurricane. Never the less, the residents of New Orleans who evacuated the city are ready to return. Not so fast. They will not be allowed to return until Thursday. Many are angry but officials are playing it safe wanting power and medical care to be back to normal. A curfew will remain in effect at night.
“Many of those who could not get in said that a house without power was preferable to another night sleeping in a car in a hot parking lot.”
““They should let people back in, the storm is over with,” said Dominique Jones, a landscaper from east New Orleans who was leaning, shirtless in the broiling heat, against his truck, while his wife, Kim, a security guard, sat inside. “We might not have lights, but we can light candles. We have canned goods. We don’t have anything out here. We’re dead broke.””
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