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The Lumberjacks travel to the Left Coast:

Louisiana football team gets a hand

By Nicole Vargas
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
September 7, 2006

LAURA EMBRY / Union-Tribune

After the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, players on the Bogalusa High football squad were grateful for the team's trip to California this summer.
CHULA VISTA – When Antoine Temple emerged from his family's Bogalusa, La., home that August morning, he couldn't believe what he saw.

“I had trees everywhere,” Temple recalled after Hurricane Katrina passed directly through his hometown last summer. “Power lines were down. We couldn't even get out of our driveway.”

Surrounded by a lush pine forest, Bogalusa (population 13,365) is a lumber town about an hour's drive north of New Orleans. After what some accounts said were as many as 16 straight hours of devastating winds as high as 180 mph, not a single home in Bogalusa escaped damage as trees snapped, assaulting the dwellings like missiles.

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