Rebuilding New Orleans
It's been five months since Hurricane Katrina damaged most of New Orleans, and nearly 80 percent of the “Crescent City” is still in disrepair. Projected damage is at $35 billion. Most businesses and schools are still closed, and more than half of the 460,000 residents have left. How many will return remains upsettingly undecided. Community leaders just recently began setting up a course of action to decide which of the city's 73 neighborhoods can be rebuilt and which would be left unpopulated to soak up potential floodwaters. For the meantime, as a new hurricane season draws nearer, efforts to strengthen and repair the protective system of canals, levees and pumps lag behind schedule.
The following websites contain more information on the cleanup and rebuilding of New Orleans:
Last Updated February 7, 2006
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