Eighty-five-year-old Clothilde Mack watched in horror as, inch-by-inch, her world slipped away. The flood waters had already overtaken her car, her home — and possibly her three beloved cats. Now, as she stood alone in the attic of her house, the elderly New Orleans woman feared that the water would soon overtake her as well. (snip) At one point, the water covered her body up to her neck. In a journal, the elderly widow wrote, “I have lost everything in the house. I don’t know what damage (there is) on the outside. I am sure I lost my car.” (snip)...