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Last week, speaking to the city's business community, Bush's Katrina czar, Donald Powell, promised that the levees would be rebuilt "better and stronger" before hurricane season starts in June--thanks to $1.5 billion Congress approved in December for levee-repair work and temporary floodgates on Lake Pontchartrain. Will it be enough? To find out, the Corps, using a supercomputer and a centrifuge, is running simulations on 1,300 storm possibilities to calculate risk. East New Orleans is its test case, and its report is due later this month. "If there is another Katrina, the system is not built...
...flood-prone parts of town, where homeowners must obtain flood insurance. Until the maps come out, it's hard for people to calculate the cost of returning. Construction worker Mike Reed was gutting a wood-frame house last week in Lakeview, a prosperous neighborhood on the lip of Lake Pontchartrain that was devastated when the 17th Street levee broke. "Most people have had their places gutted," he says. "But if you drive around, you'll see nobody putting up Sheetrock or restoring houses." Plus there's one other major unknown. "Everyone is waiting to see if the levees are going...
...accumulated enough years of service to sail off into the sunset with a good pension. Both kids' college tuitions and one of their weddings were out of the way; his 46-ft. sailboat, the Sazerac, beckoned. But then Hurricane Katrina walloped his house two blocks from Lake Pontchartrain, and his plans for a clean break from his career shifted. "Suddenly, having cash outside of retirement plans began to look like a pretty good idea," says Markway, now 55. Besides, he felt a need to be useful. When Shell offered him interesting work on a project basis, he took...
...Orleans' Dillard University, Carmelita is looking for new work. So far, openings for a hot-dog vendor or truck driver have not been too appealing. Carmelita and Nathaniel like to imagine that in three to five years, they may be able to return to New Orleans. Their neighborhood of Pontchartrain Park, the first African-American subdivision in the city, was so wrecked that whatever is left is slated to be reduced to rubble. Carmelita is sad that it will be lost to history, but Nathaniel is not one to dwell on the past. After all, for everything that the family...
...five siblings grew up in the gritty Ninth Ward of New Orleans. When Brown was 11, her eldest brother John, who she believes was a drug dealer, was murdered. Police fished his savagely beaten body, bound to the bumper and rims from his dismantled Oldsmobile 98, out of Lake Pontchartrain. In her teenage years, Brown was raised largely by her sisters. By 14, she was pregnant with Vivian; Angeline followed barely five years later. Brown lived for a while with Angeline's father in Cobb County, near Atlanta, but he drifted back to his old gangster life in New Orleans...