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...Worse yet, the mental health care system needed to help deal with all this is in ruins. Private psychologists and psychiatrists are almost impossible to find. Emergency rooms outside New Orleans - those that survived the storm - are now packed with people from the city seeking mental health care. It's not just the pre-Katrina schizophrenics and crazies who have gone without meds for the year, but regular people who are stressed and depressed. "Life is just not easy in the Big Easy now," says Buras. "There's a lot of anxiety and deep depression...
...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. He has taken...
...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...
...city's operating budget. Getting those visitors back is key to the city's recovery, and to its long-term viability - perhaps even more so in a smaller, post-Katrina economy, when luring new business and industry will likely be an even greater challenge than it was before the storm...
...times ahead. "People from other parts of the nation are concerned about the water, the air and the seafood, of all things," Mullen says, as a couple of middle-aged tourists negotiate a price for a double psychic reading. But he's determined to ride out the post-hurricane storm. "We're not going anywhere," he adds. "It's just gonna be a long haul." Far too long, unless more visitors themselves make the haul...