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New Orleans vows to welcome tourists once again.(Going Places)

Byline: Kathy Rodeghier Daily Herald Travel Editor

"This is a disaster waiting to happen."

The guide leading my orientation tour through New Orleans on June 9, 2004, was blunt about the fragility of a city built below sea level.

We were passing through swampland drained for growing sugar cane in the 1800s that had become a neighborhood of upscale homes. A major storm could destroy everything around us, he said.

Those words came back to haunt me when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the floodwalls broke.

But as my eyes were glued to shocking scenes of destruction on TV, I remembered what else he said: New Orleans has weathered many hardships in its ...

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