Katrina Victims Angry at Recovery Pace - Yahoo! News
Katrina Victims Angry at Recovery Pace - Yahoo! News: "By ERIN TEXEIRA, AP National Writer 2 hours, 57 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS - Tangeyon Wall shivers, partly from anger and partly because it's a chilly New Orleans morning and there's no heat in her gutted home.
There's no electricity, gas, sewer service or drinkable water either.
It's been months since Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans, and Wall seethes that her city has barely begun to recover.
But she's even madder that her neighborhood, mostly black, is lagging far behind many others in getting its utilities back. And that other black neighborhoods, among the worst hit by the flooding, seem to be getting the least help."
NEW ORLEANS - Tangeyon Wall shivers, partly from anger and partly because it's a chilly New Orleans morning and there's no heat in her gutted home.
There's no electricity, gas, sewer service or drinkable water either.
It's been months since Hurricane Katrina flooded 80 percent of New Orleans, and Wall seethes that her city has barely begun to recover.
But she's even madder that her neighborhood, mostly black, is lagging far behind many others in getting its utilities back. And that other black neighborhoods, among the worst hit by the flooding, seem to be getting the least help."
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