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Article: In New Orleans, one battered community coming back, but different.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- August 29, 2007
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Byline: Patrik Jonsson Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW ORLEANS -- Ronny Bertucci has the tallest house on Lake Catherine island, and that's saying something.
Measuring 21 feet, six inches, from the ground to the floor, the construction techniques for his new lakeside perch are taken from an oil platform. "She'll hold," the journeyman electrician says from his tall porch as he looks out at the bayous of the Rigolets, the "hurricane highway" that steered Katrina onto the Gulf Coast and into infamy exactly two years ago.
So far, life is clinging to - sometimes thriving on - the shores of Lake Pontchartrain, as rickety fish camps ...