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Transcript: Profile: Baton Rouge, a hurricane boom town
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- September 4, 2005
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LIANE HANSEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
09-04-2005
Profile: Baton Rouge, a hurricane boom town
Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM
LIANE HANSEN, host:
New Orleans has become a ghost town in the days since Hurricane Katrina hit, But just 80 miles to the northwest, Louisiana's capital, Baton Rouge, has become a boomtown. NPR's Greg Allen reports.
GREG ALLEN reporting:
The first thing you notice when you arrive in Baton Rouge are the cars.
(Soundbite of traffic)
ALLEN: They're everywhere. There are congested roads, long gas lines and residential streets lined with parked cars. Every hotel room is full; every apartment is taken; restaurants are packed--you name it, city ...