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Barber Shop located in Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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Explosions shake a Texas town, and its view on Thanksgiving
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Explosions shake a Texas town, and its view on Thanksgiving

Two explosions forced tens of thousands of people to leave the area around a chemical plant. “As long as we know that we’re O.K., that’s all that really matters,” one resident said.
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The Texas coastline is slowly disappearing. Here's how one community is coping

The Texas coastline is slowly disappearing. Here's how one community is coping

The Lone Star State's shoreline is experiencing one of the highest rates of land loss of any coastal area in the country thanks to a combination of subsidence, sea level rise and storm surges.
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