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TIL about the National Weather Service bulletin for the New Orleans region of 10:11 a.m., August 28, 2005, a particularly dire warning of the devastation that Hurricane Katrina could bring. It included the warning, "PERSONS EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK."

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