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Not long ago, this furniture was part of a home. It, like everything else destroyed by…

Debris pile of broken wooden chairs with turned legs, caked in dried mud and white residue, surrounded by scattered paper, metal pipes, and a discarded soda bottle.

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Metairie and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina - 10.23.05

Not long ago, this furniture was part of a home. It, like everything else destroyed by Katrina, is tossed into the debris pile and will end up in the new mountain of debris growing on Pontchartrain Blvd.

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“Not long ago, this furniture was part of a home. It, like everything else destroyed by…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/3471.