More than two years after the storm, the manager's neighborhood is a patch quilt of contrasting wills.
The old woman who lived across the street lost everything. Her brick home is now a weed-strewn empty lot.
In a front lawn down the block sits a white FEMA-issued trailer, propped on cinder blocks. Are they rebuilding, the neighbors wonder, or just marking time?
A few doors away, an abandoned house's threshold still bears the ominous, painted "X" from those first days after Hurricane Katrina. The sprayed symbol alerted rescuers whether there was a dead body inside.
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Washington knows all about rebuilding
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