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"Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans" by Don Brown, List 2

Mon Jul 14 15:51:03 EDT 2025
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This acclaimed nonfiction book tells the story of Hurricane Katrina in graphic form.

This list covers vocabulary from pages 30–48.

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Here is a link to our list for Unwanted by Don Brown.
generator
But Mayor Nagin has failed to fully stock it with enough generator fuel, food, and bedding.
scour
Although the roof is reportedly built to withstand two-hundred-MPH winds, it shreds beneath Katrina's one-hundred-MPH scouring.
choppy
Meanwhile, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries officers launch their small, flat-bottom boats into the choppy waters and lashing winds to make house-to-house rescues.
hoist
Coast Guard men and women take to the air and water, hoisting people out of the flood and off roofs.
complex
The complex of large meeting rooms and halls is closed.
loot
Shops and businesses are looted, sometimes by people in need of supplies, and other times by thieves who are quick to take advantage of streets without police protection.
mayhem
The mayhem encourages more than a few police officers to join the looting.
stifling
People hiding in the Superdome, huddling in the convention center, trapped on roofs, melt in the stifling weather.
breach
Water still washes into the city. Some of [the] levee breaches have grown.
stagnant
Now the water has grown stagnant and black.

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