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A Katrina survivor with a disability tells her story

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Published: Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 12:06 pm

Karen Nix was working at Tulane Medical Center, monitoring the vitals of patients, when the levees failed and Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans on August 29, 2005. By evening the medical center was inundated water rose several feet into the first floors of buildings.

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