NOLA survivors lining up to get tattoo memorials

By at 10:50 pm Thursday, Oct 20

New Orleans's tattoo artists are seeing a surge in business as hurricaine survivors come in to get their ordeal memorialized in ink:
Tattoo artists report a surge in demand for designs that celebrate New Orleans: fleur-de-lis patterns, "NOLA," after the city's widely known abbreviation, and even a symbol modeled after the weather-map depiction of hurricanes.
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