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Southwest view down North Rampart Street toward downtown New Orleans.
Students gathered for dinner at the Praline Connection on Frenchman Street in the Fauborg Marigny area.
Café Brasil, across from the Praline Connection, was lively during the March visit.
The markings left by the National Guard as they surveyed the damage of the storm remained on many buildings in March, 2006.
FEMA trailers were set up in public areas around the city to accommodate an influx of workers.
The Army Corps of Engineers were working to repair the 17th Street Canal, which collapsed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Neighborhoods adjacent to the canal experienced extensive damage, like this house in Lakeview.
Workers repaired many sections of the canal. Because the original pilings were drilled too shallow, the soil beneath eroded and caused the retaining wall to collapse.
The slab housing common to many areas of the city was particularly vulnerable to flooding.
Some areas of the city experienced little or no damage, including the area around Tulane University, in Uptown, New Orleans.
Abandoned housing projects that experienced minimal damage, like this one, could provide temporary housing to returning residents.
Residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, which was essentially leveled during the storm, are still looking for answers.
Residents worry about the toxic substances in debris from houses, which they are forbidden from collecting in plastic trash bags.
Silt from the canals and Lake Pontchartrain contains toxic pollutants and covers the city.
The canals carried the storm surge from Lake Pontchartrain into the city, causing the massive flooding.
Degradation of marshland along the coast of Louisiana also contributed to the flooding.
This elderly housing complex in the Tremé doesnt seem damaged, but must be gutted due to mold.
The black mold grows in the drywall, which must be removed before the building can be inhabited again.
Even on upper floors, which didnt flood, mold grew to the ceiling, filling the building with its stench.
The class recommended that playgrounds be the first focus of environmental cleanup to protect returning children.
This house in the Tremé, one of New Orleans oldest African American communities, is the headquarters of Ujaama the community partner working with the class.
Ujaama is affliated with the St. Peter Clavier Catholic Church, and it has a large shrine in its yard.
Ujaama would like to convert the abandoned building across from its headquarters into a neighborhood school.
Churches in the Tremé have been a major factor in its recovery.
Interstate 10 bisects the Tremé, and casts a shadow over Claiborne Avenue.
Flooded cars towed under the highway during the citys cleanup provide auto parts as well as shelter to the returned.
New Orleanians, and residents of the Tremé in particular, are known for their spirit of independence and resistence.
Evidence of the former spirit of the neighborhood.
In March, a number of homes were being rebuilt by their owners.
Tremé businesses had begun to reopen as well, like this laundromat.
Housing in the Tremé is characterized by large, shuttered windows and unique details in the trim.
Similar details are found in the French Quarter, the citys oldest district.
The Lafitte housing project sits at the southwest edge of the neighborhood.
This project, which sits beside the highway, could provide returning residents with transitional housing.
Although the Tremé only flooded about 3 feet, evidence of the flood remains on walls and doorways.
Other signs of the flood abound, such as boats sitting in the streets.
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