Can our lifestyles survive? One week after Hurricane Katrina desolated the south--and one week...

It's the second day of September, and as the print begins to hit the page on this last 2005 issue of COUNTRYSIDE, residents throughout the United States sit in the wake of Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the gulf coast ... and brace themselves for the rippling after-effects and the pressures they may place on an alread tenuous economy: not only in higher prices at the gas tank or in the area of energy costs--but in raised prices for certain food products and goods reflecting consequential elevated costs in their production, manufacturing and transportation.

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