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Collateral damage
(2007) Updegrave, Walter
Katrina also laid waste to the market for homeowners insurance. Here's what you can do about it.
When Sweat Equity is the Only Way Home
(2007) Hughes, Amy R.
Johnny Moore is on the roof of his flood-wrecked home in New Orleans. But he's not waiting to be rescued. The three-and-a-half feet of water that swamped the modest brick-faced ranch he shared with his wife, Venus, has long since receded. Now, two years after Hurricane Katrina struck and the levees failed, Johnny is saving himself by rebuilding his house the only way he can: with his own hands.
New Orleans: Where's the money?
(2007) Lashinsky, Adam
Fortune Magazine -- Ask New Orleanians how their city is faring these days, and their responses follow an eerily consistent arc. They begin with gratitude that you bothered asking and then move on to recitations of all the good that's going on. Hurricane Katrina, and the flood that followed, struck two years ago this month, and since then the tourists have returned, basic services are operating, and the city has crafted a comprehensive recovery plan. Linger a bit on the subject, however, and optimism quickly turns to exasperation. Lack of government leadership, the glacial pace of rebuilding, and outright rage at absent neighbors who've yet to demolish blighted homes top the list of gripes.
The next energy crisis
(2007) Varchaver, Nicholas
Port Fourchon feels like the edge of the world. As you drive south on Louisiana Highway 1 through Bayou Lafourche, open marshes seem to stretch endlessly until you reach this spot, 60 miles below New Orleans. There, the marsh once known as trembling prairie meets the Gulf of Mexico. This is an oil-services installation. And though its existence is unknown to most Americans, it is vital to them. Without Port Fourchon and its fleet of vessels bringing food, supplies, equipment, and reinforcements to platforms in the gulf, the U.S. would lose access to nearly a fifth of all the oil and gas it uses. Port Fourchon is also home to pipelines, miles and miles of them. There are the feeders from the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, which accommodates the massive tankers that deliver 11 percent of the nation's foreign oil.
You can't go home again
(2007) Harris, Marlys
Two years have passed since Hurricane Katrina smashed into New Orleans. And if you hang out downtown and don't look too closely, you might think that everything is back to normal. The French Quarter, home to the city's famous jazz clubs and eateries, is thick with tourists, and the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the shelter of last resort for thousands of hot, hungry and hopeless hurricane survivors, again plays host to groups like the American Association of Law Libraries and the International Council of Shopping Centers. But to the east, off Interstate 90, in the city's hardest-hit neighborhoods, the landscape is still post-apocalyptic. On major arteries, practically everything is boarded up: shopping centers, supermarkets, Walgreens, Wendy's, even gas stations.
New Orleans: Risky business for insurance
(2007) Simons, John
Silver-haired and 62, Jim Donelon has never worked so hard. The New Orleans-born lawyer and politician has suddenly become a traveling salesman of sorts. His pitch: "Come sell insurance in New Orleans." In recent weeks, the Louisiana state insurance commissioner has traveled to Columbia, S.C., to meet the chief executive of Companion Property & Casualty Group, to Seattle to call on the board of the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, and to London, where he spoke to insurers at Lloyd's. "When I talk to executives, I share some positives about the business environment. The levees are being rebuilt," Donelon says. "And more importantly, with our Napoleonic Code [which does not impose punitive damages], we are a much less intimidating litigation environment than our neighboring states.
Kendell Goes Back To School
(2007) Dennis, Alicia; Schindehette, Susan
Ten-year-old Kendell Lewis hops down from the steps of his trailer to take a visitor on a child's-eye tour of what remains, and what is gone, from the streets of his old neighborhood. "I had friends there, lots of them," he says outside an abandoned house with boarded-up windows in the Lower Ninth Ward. "Kadija, Vernon, Tyris and Ariane. But I don't get to play with them now." Farther up the block, collapsed shells of houses lie in multicolored heaps. The park where, Kendell says, "I used to hit a ball with my bat" is now deserted, grown over with weeds taller than a little boy. On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, everywhere in this neighborhood near where the levee broke it's the same
New Orleans: Back From the Brink
(2007) Collis, Clark; Juarez, Vanessa
The city fell silent after Hurricane Katrina, its legendary music scene devastated. But two years later, the town's arts community is coming together to get the Big Easy swinging again. A look at their extraordinary stories
Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later: In Their Own Words (part 7)
(2007) Milling, King
The number one thing for New Orleans at this juncture is to truly begin to be able to derive the funds from the federal government to do what has been promised: re-establish the destroyed infrastructure in this community. Seventy percent of this city was under water. The infrastructure collapsed. The city has been without significant capital funding to be able to solve those issues.
Hurricane Katrina - Two Years Later: In Their Own Words (part 5)
(2007) McAllister, Deuce
One of the most important things that would help New Orleans rebound is education. The education system in New Orleans, as in Louisiana as a whole, hasn't been great. But we have an opportunity to build a new one that ranks high, not only in the southeast, but in the entire United States.

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