From Deseret News archives:
The next big one? Katrina is scary wake-up call to disaster-prone U.S. cities
In Memphis, 50-year-old Stewart Wilson said there was nothing he could do to prevent a disaster in his home town. He figures he'd adapt.
"If it gets so bad in Memphis," he shrugged, "I've got relatives in Jackson, Tenn., and Chattanooga."
EDITOR'S NOTE — Contributing to this story were AP writers Wayne Parry in Linden, N.J.; Adam Goldman in Las Vegas; Cheryl Wittenauer in St. Louis; Tim Molloy in Los Angeles; Woody Baird in Memphis; Sean Murphy in Oklahoma City; Curt Woodward in Olympia, Wash.; Michelle Spitzer in Miami; Mitch Stacy in Tampa, Fla.; Kim Curtis in San Francisco; and Michael Graczyk in Houston.
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