BATON ROUGE, La. — Maxine Henry sat down for breakfast at the Chapel on the Campus, a haven at Louisiana State University that has served as sleeping quarters and oasis to medical workers helping to care for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Henry fit into a strange category: She was a nurse working at Charity Hospital in New Orleans' central business district during the storm. She was evacuated by boat Sunday and is now homeless, because the bottom half of her house is flooded.
In the Chapel recreation room, she was eating yogurt with her cell phone to her ear, trying to hook up with her children, call her insurance company and figure out where she wants to live. "Even those of us who are working the storm, we all need help to get through this," she told me, describing her plight of being stuck in a hospital that stood like a fortress surrounded by a moat...
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