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Related: About this forumWhat has happened in the lower ninth Ward since Katrina?
What has happened in the lower ninth Ward since Katrina?
Has there been rebuilding? Have many people moved away?
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What has happened in the lower ninth Ward since Katrina? (Original Post)
raccoon
Sep 2019
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)1. Great question.
Understand the Home owners Insurance is killer for those whom did rebuild.
Thekaspervote
(32,715 posts)2. Louisiana coast line sinks approx 1/3" every year
I know the die hards want to live there, but really?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127111061
rampartc
(5,388 posts)3. i live in upper 9th
we are generally near normal.
across the canal, in lower 9, things are moving very slowly. there are many empty blocks, but strips along the main streets, Claiborne and st claude, are rebuilt and populated.
anything in particular?
raccoon
(31,105 posts)4. No, I just wondered what was going on there now. NT