Katrina Kills at Least 55 More New Orleans, Mississippi Swamped

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Announcing itself with shrieking, 145-mph winds, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast just outside New Orleans on Monday, submerging entire neighborhoods up to their roofs, swamping Mississippi's beachfront casinos and killing at least 55 people.

Jim Pollard, spokesman for the Harrison County emergency operations center, said 50 people were killed by Katrina in his county, with the bulk of the deaths at an apartment complex in Biloxi, Miss. Three other people were killed by falling trees in Mississippi and two died in a traffic accident in Alabama, authorities said.

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Katrina Kills at Least 55 More New Orleans, Mississippi Swamped

For New Orleans -- a dangerously vulnerable city because it sits mostly below sea level in a bowl-shaped depression -- it was not the apocalyptic storm forecasters had feared.

But it was plenty bad in New Orleans and elsewhere along the coast, where scores of people had to be rescue...

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