Word: pontchartrain
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Bernazzani rode out the storm in the FBI office, perched on the edge of Lake Pontchartrain. The howling, punishing winds stripped off two-thirds of the roof. He spent five days there in all before being helicoptered to safety...
...Orleans, of course, has always been more or less waterlogged. It sits in a bowl that averages 9 ft. below sea level, with Lake Pontchartrain brimming to its north, the Mississippi River running to its south and the Gulf of Mexico crashing at its door. Keeping a place like that dry would be a city planner's nightmare in the best of circumstances. But New Orleans' circumstances have never been ideal; the city was built in the center of one of the most hurricane-prone spots in the world. "New Orleans naturally wants to be a lake," says Timothy Kusky...
...friends.Those items are the casualties of the hurricane. Though Katrina came and left seven months ago, the aftermath is still apparent. In this neighborhood, homes sag in the middle, inside mold climbs up the walls, spreading outward in black splotches. The waters from the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain pooled in the nooks of cabinets and other hidden places. Worse are the silent, empty homes filling so many neighborhoods. Sometimes, from the skeleton of a house, a homeowner wearing a surgical mask quietly appears. But more often than not there is no one at all.The city suffers in other parts...
With the Governor's new plan in place, maybe those funds really will start getting there. Meanwhile, the street has been rebuilding itself without them. Noah Chiasson, 58, lives in Lakeview along the rim of Lake Pontchartrain. He and his wife bunk on the undamaged second floor of their house. They have no gas, no phone, no TV, no postal service. But they're O.K. With few lighted houses around him, it gets so dark after sundown that it's possible again to see stars in the nighttime sky. "But every night I look out the window now, there...
Even before Katrina, many of these were underutilized parts of town, including empty lots. The city now sees the areas as having potential for large-scale commercial or residential development. Lake Pontchartrain...