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Failed Armor

When the flooding first occurred, before the levees broke, we scrambled to try to save as many books and photo albums as possible by setting them higher on this large bookcase. Never imagining that the levees would break, we thought the books and albums would remain safe. After learning that the house would sit flooded for nearly two weeks, we knew we would probably end up losing what we'd tried to save. A month later, when we finally were officially allowed back into the city to only survey our damaged homes, we found we were right.

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