Engineers in New Orleans race gainst Rita to patch weak levees

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

NEW ORLEANS -- The Army Corps of Engineers raced to patch New Orleans' fractured levee system Tuesday and residents were forced to decide yet again whether to stay or go as a new, rapidly strengthening hurricane threatened to flood the city anew.

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