After Katrina, New Orleans not so Big, anything but Easy

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NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) — Two years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is still licking its wounds but efforts are being made to bring back the tourists that once made the Big Easy a major draw.

But one enterprising resident, Pamela Pipes, has released the first audio guide to the disaster and its aftermath.

"When Katrina hit, I was out of business, I was in exile. I slept in 16 beds before I came back. My home was not flooded, but (I had) no phone, no electricity for six months. There were no women in the city, mostly men," recalls Pipes, a seventh-generation new Orleans resident.

More than two years on, much of the sultry city famed for its jazz and Creole cooking still lies abandoned after seas whipped up by the hurricane breached its levees on...