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I heard a woman call a talk show here in Dallas last week that said that her mother is STILL waiting for her new roof from a couple of years ago in Florida...

If I were Arthel Neville and others from NO, I would get used to the idea of NOT living in NO anytime soon.

If fact, if I was a resident of NO...I would demand that the govt. and the Corps of Engineers do whatever it takes to fix the levees the RIGHT way...not the most expedient or inexpensive.

When I was a little girl, we lived in a quonset hut in Boulder Colorado for two years while my father built a house all by himself---during the evenings and on weekends..

TWO years...just a 3 bedroom, 1 bath ranch...but it meant so much to us...and it was the only way my parent could afford a house on some land...not just a small lot.

Perhaps the military could put up some quonset huts in LA for people to live in...although, I don't know which would be safer in bad weather..a quonset or a mobile home.

Charley report:

I'd say about 10% of the houses destroyed in Charley have yet to come down. There are hundreds of houses with blue traps. On my block 2 out of ten did not get full roof replacements. Of those four are still waiting for materials or labor. About 80% of downtown commercial was destroyed. There are two buildings under construction. Most of the street lights that came down are still down. Churches and schools ditto.

Levees: I am of the view that any thing that man makes can break. Therefor the levee system needs redundancy like they have in Holland. This means a radically different land use plan for NOLA. That is what needs to come first: a better land use plan. Better codes. I really doubt the local government has the courage to do it, but the mortgage lenders and the insurance companies can force their. The feds (i.e. HUD) needs to not wilt under the pressure to put back public or subsidized housing sub-code.