At the levee breech in the lower 9th Ward, we ran into Donald Lindsay. He is a football coach and school teacher who grew up in the 9th . He gave us a house to house tour of where he grew up, each of the houses being as pictured above. His grandparents house was a concrete slab. The house where he was babysat as a child was several doors down, across the street, on top of another house. The body squad has not been by yet and, as you can see, anybody left in the neighbourhood close to the hole when the levee gave is likely dead.
FEMA has offered the members of Donald's family a whopping $2000 each to turn a piece of the rubble pictured above into a life. They say there will be more later. Meanwhile all of these people's money is running out and the survivors are scattered across all of America. There are no schools open, there weren't enough to begin with, so Donald is working as a roofer.
We will post audio of the interview with Donald taken as we were touring his destroyed neighbourhood once we get hosting space.
- Geoffrey Young
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