T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A R L I N G T O N
Thursday
September 2, 2010
Volume 92, No.
6
www.
theshorthorn.
com
Since 1919
Since 1919
Since 1919
BY TAYLOR CAMMACK
The Shorthorn staff
Ester Hitchens remembers the stench
as if it was...
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T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F T E X A S A T A R L I N G T O N
Thursday
September 2, 2010
Volume 92, No.
6
www.
theshorthorn.
com
Since 1919
Since 1919
Since 1919
BY TAYLOR CAMMACK
The Shorthorn staff
Ester Hitchens remembers the stench
as if it was yesterday.
A murky dawn rose over the streets
of New Orleans.
Somber wind chimes in
neighboring yards were the only sounds
breaking the deep, impenetrable silence.
There was no cracking of shutters, no
lively discourse.
The vast panorama of
culture and music — the very vibrancy
of life for which the “Big Easy” was
coined — is absent.
The neighborhoods
are empty.
No one is home
Residents weren’t allowed to return
until Oct.
5, 2005, more than a month
after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
But like many evacuees, the history senior had no home when he returned.
His
house, along with many family members’
houses, couldn’t withstand the one-two
punch: the hurricane’s fury and the cataclysmic failure of the city’s levee system
which left
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