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  Twisters Add Insult to New Orleans' Injury
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Last EditedRipzaw  Feb 02, 2006 08:49pm
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News DateFriday, February 3, 2006 02:35:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionKENNER, La. (AP) -- Tornadoes tore through New Orleans neighborhoods Thursday that had been hit hard by Hurricane Katrina just five months earlier, collapsing at least one previously damaged house and battering the airport, authorities said.

Roofs were ripped off, utility poles came down and a radio tower fell near a major thoroughfare, but no serious injuries were reported.

"Don't ever ask the question, `What else could happen?'" said Marcia Paul Leone, a mortgage banker who was surveying the new damage to her Katrina-flooded home.
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