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A Foggy New Year
I have to say New Year’s Eve in New Orleans was a bit surreal. Reporter Baird Helgeson and I joined local New Orleans residents in Jackson Square to celebrate the coming new year. A thick, heavy fog had settled over the city and I almost half expected to bump into a few Anne Rice characters along the way.
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The square was full of Mardi Gras masked characters, and those wearing boas and 2006 glasses. A voodoo bone reader had her table set up yards from military vehicles parked in the square. Balconies were full with revelers, and below the balconies screams for beads echoed through the streets. A few of the National Guardsmen were milling around behind a group of women collecting the beads.
