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After Hurricane Katrina, evacuees changed Houston and the city changed them

By Dominic Anthony Walsh

Published September 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM EDT

More than 100,000 evacuees of Hurricane Katrina came to Houston. We meet three of them -- two men in a barbershop and a doctor in his clinic.

Dominic Anthony Walsh

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