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...with "jack-o-lantern" development, one or two rebuilt houses amid a block of devastation. But because Mayor Ray Nagin favors a "market-driven solution", residents aren't really sure which neighborhoods will come back. On Monday, competing development groups - representing the mayor, city council and, indirectly, the Louisiana Recovery Authority - finally signed an agreement to stop squabbling and put together a citywide development plan, which might offer some direction for future growth. The new deadline? Well, hopefully, before...
Dozens of alligators duck and dodge airboats at the Sabine Wildlife Refuge, where the cleanup from Hurricane Rita is just beginning nearly a year after the storm hit the Texas-Louisiana border. Rita struck less than a month after Katrina, forcing New Orleans evacuees to flee further inland. Rita's storm surge demolished coastal Louisiana towns and turned this southwest Louisiana marsh into a toxic trash heap, leaving fields littered with everything from flip-flops and shampoo bottles to refrigerators and entire 18-wheelers. One of about 3,000 trash piles is 5 miles long and half a mile wide...
...wasn't until June that President George W. Bush signed the fourth hurricane appropriation bill giving U.S. Fish & Wildlife $132 million to clean up hazardous material. The delay will end up costing taxpayers more money - because the same cleanup crews that worked last fall have to return to Louisiana and start again. In the year since Rita, the debris has sunk deep into the marsh, making hazardous materials more difficult to find and retrieve. Plus, labels have peeled off containers, so no one knows exactly what they have contained, or how much they have already leaked. No one knows...
...only two people walking on the beach are Steve and Lisa Stroud, filling a plastic Wal-Mart bag with seashells. They drove six hours from northern Louisiana to visit the place where they've vacationed since they were kids. "We never even bothered to buy a T-shirt," Steve Stroud says sadly of his last visit...
...told, 400,000 people fled or were evacuated out of the city of New Orleans, where the current population is still half the pre-Katrina level. Taking in those who also left Mississippi, Alabama and other regions of Louisiana, 1.5 million people have applied for FEMA relocation assistance, according to the Appleseed study...