Post by Shadow on Jan 7, 2006 13:42:09 GMT -5
Sierra Times
By ERIN TEXEIRA, AP National Writer 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS - Tangeyon Wall shivers, partly from anger and partly because it's a chilly New Orleans morning and there's no heat in her gutted home.
There's no electricity, gas, sewer service or drinkable water either.
It's been months since Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans, and Wall seethes that her city has barely begun to recover.
But she's even madder that her neighborhood, mostly black, is lagging far behind many others in getting its utilities back. And that other black neighborhoods, among the worst hit by the flooding, seem to be getting the least help.
Very few people have returned to those places. And why would they?
Their neighborhoods are wastelands. Most houses are uninhabitable. Sidewalks are piled with moldy sofas and crumbling plywood. Plans to protect residents from another disaster are still fuzzy at best.
And buzzing through town is a city-commissioned report suggesting that some neighborhoods, mostly black, not be rebuilt at all.
By ERIN TEXEIRA, AP National Writer 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS - Tangeyon Wall shivers, partly from anger and partly because it's a chilly New Orleans morning and there's no heat in her gutted home.
There's no electricity, gas, sewer service or drinkable water either.
It's been months since Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans, and Wall seethes that her city has barely begun to recover.
But she's even madder that her neighborhood, mostly black, is lagging far behind many others in getting its utilities back. And that other black neighborhoods, among the worst hit by the flooding, seem to be getting the least help.
Very few people have returned to those places. And why would they?
Their neighborhoods are wastelands. Most houses are uninhabitable. Sidewalks are piled with moldy sofas and crumbling plywood. Plans to protect residents from another disaster are still fuzzy at best.
And buzzing through town is a city-commissioned report suggesting that some neighborhoods, mostly black, not be rebuilt at all.