There were still FEMA trailer compounds in Homestead for 18 mos. after Andrew.
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.