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...strong, it moved houses--their concrete foundations still attached--down streets. The parish president, who lost his home like everyone else did, figures there is just one habitable house left out of 25,000 in the entire parish. Even the homes that "survived" Katrina are foul with mud, mold and nests of water moccasins. From 50% to 80% of the parish may be so structurally unsound, it will have to be razed...
...over the devastated parish, families are trying to decide whether to stay or move on. "At first, people think they're going to fix their homes," says councilwoman Judy Hoffmeister, shaking her head as she watches a friend, Calvin Melerine, 66, shovel mud from his two-story home and ditch one piece of furniture after another. "They come in with U-Hauls, and they're lucky if they leave with a garbage bag full," she says. At her house around the block, Hoffmeister plans to rescue some bronzed baby shoes, but she turns away in tears at the door after...
...devastated region. The idea of living below sea level in a hurricane-prone area is insane. The Federal Government should eliminate the National Flood Insurance Program, which encourages construction in flood-prone areas. People shouldn't build fragile houses in tornado alleys, homes on hillsides that are vulnerable to mud slides, or cities in earthquake zones. People should make better choices. I hope, against all probability, that New Orleans is not rebuilt. It would be a waste of lives, resources, effort and money. Walter Jeffries West Topsham, Vermont...
...against the soldiers and settlers proved more effective than the Palestinian Authority's negotiations. Tens of thousands of Gazans have driven south since the Israelis left to see the places where the settlements stood. To do so is to visit a landscape entirely new and strange, with ploughed over mud where army posts stood and settlers' demolished homes punctuating the sand dunes with bright piles of concrete...
...water rose, Barnes, a concrete finisher, climbed into the attic and then onto his roof, then used his belt to strap himself to the top of a pine tree. "You could hear the tornadoes roaring," he says. When the flood abated, he discovered a neighbor's corpse. Bayou mud left little in his house to salvage. But he thinks he'll find work...