Why was the US government so ill-prepared for Hurricane Katrina? What are the over-reaching ethnic and social implications? What now for New Orleans? Will it ever be the same again once it has been reconstructed? These are some of the questions that Thomas Dworzak poses in his photo-essay. Click here to view images and listen to his personal narrative of how the events unfolded.

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