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...Here" is New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, east of the French Quarter across the Industrial Canal. The Ninth was the community worst ravaged by the floods as high as rooftops that tore through the city's levees on August 29. It took six weeks for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to pump the fetid water out of the area, and Ninth Ward residents were finally allowed back into their neighborhoods Wednesday morning for temporary "look-and-leave" visits. But even as they resigned themselves to the fact that their homes, as they are now, are lost to them, most...
...Outlet (MRGO, known locally as "Mister Go"), which the Port of New Orleans commissioned 50 years ago for quick Gulf access. But quick access to open water also means easy access for seawater. The MRGO and two other deepwater channels carved out of the bayou meet at the Industrial Canal just east of New Orleans to form a superchannel that points like a shotgun at the city's low-income, low-elevation Ninth Ward. Hurricanes merely pull the trigger. Both Katrina and Rita brought storm surges from the Gulf and Lake Pontchartrain that crashed unimpeded, blasted past the levee...
Back home, she was telling Hattier, there was a boat on the steps of the athletic center, and the parking garage had imploded and covered the cars with pink fuzz. Hattier, whose Lakeview home near the infamous 17th Street Canal was all but destroyed, carved into a grapefruit half...
...Despite a lifetime of dedicated brushing, flossing and checkups, I just had to have a root canal and crown on one of my molars. Because I don’t have insurance, I have had to pay $3,800 out of pocket, a huge amount for someone like me. It’s about the cost of my rent for six months. I have a second tooth that also really needs a crown, but I can’t afford it now, so it will have to wait, although I run the risk of damaging it further (and, god forbid...
London Ave. Canal...