Whole neighbourshoods look like this

New Orleans to Mobile Alabama

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January 12th 2008
Today we hired a car and drove to Alabama to watch Robert play basketball. We drove via the Gulf Coast which is where "Katrina" hit. When we drove out of New Orleans you could see the desruction .... miles and miles of damaged/destroyed housing. To my surprise alot of it was not the ramshacked timber places we saw on the news but they were just ordinary suburbs brick houses on cement slabs. Sp ... read more

North America » United States » Alabama » Mobile

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more