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Sixteen months after Katrina hit, Gentilly homeowners face only gutted houses. New Orleans…

Interior of a gutted house reduced to exposed wooden stud framing and ceiling joists, with sunlight streaming through bare window frames and a plank subfloor cluttered with debris.

Sixteen months after Katrina hit, Gentilly homeowners face only gutted houses. New Orleans life is still up in the air. Levees still are not ready, no doctors to visit, no reassurance we will be able to afford insurance. At age 83, what the heck are people supposed to do? Wait on the LRA until the grave? Lord, help us.

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“Sixteen months after Katrina hit, Gentilly homeowners face only gutted houses. New Orleans…,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/14625.