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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 | 5:55pm
Hurricane Katrina: 2 yrs Later
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated coastal areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, residents say much of America has forgotten their plight. But President Bush said Wednesday the federal government has been persistent in pushing recovery efforts. “I would like them to know that we still need all the help and [...]
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated coastal areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, residents say much of America has forgotten their plight.
But President Bush said Wednesday the federal government has been persistent in pushing recovery efforts.
“I would like them to know that we still need all the help and caring and volunteers. We need it bad. People don’t realize. They just don’t realize,” Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, resident Linda Fallon said.
The beachfront communities of Bay St. Louis and Waveland, Mississippi, were nearly destroyed in Katrina’s fury.
Two years later, one-third of Bay St. Louis residents haven’t returned. Business has moved inland.”Without the people, we don’t have a town. We don’t have a city, we don’t have a place apart,” Bay St. Louis Mayor Eddie Favre said Tuesday. He predicted it would be at least seven years before the town is back to near-normal. Read ON
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