New Orleans Hotel Provides Shelter to Journalists
214 views · Published 4 September 2008 · 2:36 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Voice of America · 2008 · Travel & Events
Up to two million people evacuated the city of New Orleans and surrounding areas in advance of Hurricane Gustav, which was not nearly as severe as Hurricane Katrina three years earlier. VOA's Barry Wood in New Orleans tells us about a French Quarter hotel that for traveling journalists provided welcome shelter from the storm.