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...Recently Buras counseled an 11-year-old whose parents committed suicide. "Even something as small as a towel on the floor can become high drama in the squeezed quarters of FEMA trailer life," she says. At EXCELth, one of the rare community health centers to reopen post-Katrina, she sees people age 6 to 80, whole families together sometimes. Most have never sought help before. EXCELth's medical director Dr. Monir Shalaby says that by his estimates, 40% of the adults they see are taking medication for depression. "Parents are breaking down. A lot of people self-medicating, drinking more...
...tell MICHAEL BROWN he's doing a heckuva job anymore. He's his own boss now. Brown, 51, who was FEMA director when Katrina hit last August, was roundly pilloried for mishandling the relief effort after the hurricane. At first President Bush stood by him, but two weeks after the storm, Brown resigned. For six weeks, he continued to work for FEMA as a consultant. Then he set up his own shop--in disaster preparedness. His firm, Michael D. Brown LLC, draws on the lessons of Katrina to help corporate clients implement contingency plans ahead of natural disasters...
...tourism industry to a dead halt. Meetings and conventions that had been scheduled years ahead of time cancelled, along with the hundreds of thousands of attendees that would have filled hotel rooms and restaurants. For months, the few casual tourists who showed up were almost exclusively families of FEMA contractors and construction workers. (Paradoxically, two of those neighborhoods that were hardest hit, and where few tourists ventured before the storm - the Lower Ninth Ward and Lakeview - have become popular destinations for out-of-town visitors...
...section of New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward is a mix of demolished houses and those still awaiting bulldozers. Hurricane Katrina destroyed some 353,000 homes in the Gulf Coast region, casting a diaspora of exiles across the country. More than 113,000 families still live in trailers provided by FEMA...
HOUSING STARTING OVER On the day of her First Communion, Reagan Cavignal, 7, and her father witness the demolition of their neighbors' house in St. Bernard Parish. The Cavignals live in a trailer beside their wrecked house. Their neighbors' house was torn down in May, a month before FEMA's offer of free home demolition expired. Louisiana's Road Home program allocated $7.5 billion for rebuilding, but none of the money has been dispersed to residents...