Louisiana Insurance

Mary Salassi rocks on the veranda impetus to his son Henry’s house, as he and his brother borrowed a kayak wade to three feet of water in the West Livingston Place. Scuba pallet wood to stir the pot of boiling crawfish, the direction of the line Salassi’s Town House flooded several blocks

I do not mind, “she says.” You can not go back and look what happened. You have to move forward. As I said, I have my children and grandchildren: You have your family. ”

Salassi turned 66 a week ago, the day Hurricane Katrina demolished a large part of southern Louisiana and Mississippi. “You all said, ‘You’re never forget the anniversary,” she muses. “My life on the head, but I will come back.”

The Salassis were among the first evacuees can return to the suburbs west and south of New Orleans, Monday, after taking all the end of the road to Houston Sunday. Until Thursday, Jefferson Parish, the opening 12-hour window - 6 am to 6 pm CT - for hundreds of thousands to visit their neighborhoods Storm-cast, assess the damage and fell a few personal belongings.

So the residents of Jefferson, whose 435000 inhabitants of the town’s second LA to New Orleans, must leave. Synchronizes “Citizens in exile” of the presidency of the parish end Aaron Broussard, they are not allowed to go home electricity, water and other important services are restored. This could week. What is better than the month it is perhaps in some parts of New Orleans to side.

Most of withstanding several kilometres of bumper to bumper Transport, Jefferson Parish, Monday morning that the neighborhoods were verwehtes wind and geschreddert, but only dry or wet, water was high.

But in Old Metairie, an enclave amid the elegant gnarled oaks on the west side of the door of New Orleans, disorder, wastewater colored soup five metres deep in places.

“We are the highest point, which means Metairie Ridge. We are in a flood, “explains Newell Normand, the town is vice-director of the Sheriff. Ago was now a famous dam at the 17th Street Canal, which stretches over Jefferson Orleans-border, and hour after Katrina passed.

“I said that the 17th Street Canal pump is today, but I said a lot in recent weeks, not control,” said Normand, was established in case of emergency The command remains without Diffuser.

Old Metairie limits of the canal, whose breach inundated much of New Orleans and East Jefferson Parish. He has a natural presence of very bad weather in the worst disaster in the history of USA.

“He is a man made a mistake not hurricane,” Salassi said.

Regardless of debt, people rieseln in the vicinity to chainsaws, boats, generators and rental truck. Those who do not leave the city to drift on a relief centre at the Sam’s Club parking off Airline Highway. National Guard troops in camouflage green has been associated with Sheriff’s deputies direct transport and remain silent on major junctions.

Despite countless fallen trees and thousands of downed power lines, most returnees are able, at home. Others have to wade or palette.

David Jackson, an Allstate Insurance agent, Laplace, La, to provide clothing, documents and photos of marriage formally a house with two feet of water.

“I came here in a pair of shorts and sandals, and my son’s track coach lent me a pair of boots and a boat,” said Jackson, 43, it looks down on the green shoes and Rubber has a double. “Two left boots!” He laughs. “But now, they are the best in the city of boots.”

After three rounds in a flat on the ground called Cajun dugout canoe, Jackson invites and encourages his abduction. “It’s all about rescue, what we can today,” he says. “My family was the main priority. Starting from tomorrow, it is probably more than 10 - 12 hours a day minimum for me,” as the order in the insurance fees for its customers.

Michael Norton, a computer consulting in Austin and found two feet of water, and a tree collapsed. “I had a contract to take the Pecan tree in my back yard,” said Norton, 38 “Too late.” And he missed his house. Other houses were not so lucky.

Slung on Norton is a rifle shoulder. His friend, Dan Sanders, 38, packs a pistol in his belt. “We had hoped that the worst,” says Sanders, notes on violence to overthrow the reports of New Orleans. After half the Oakwood Shopping Mall, in the municipality of the West Bank, was ransacked and torched last week, has given the tensions in the suburbs. A jet of characters painted West Jordan in a country neighbourhood warns: “U loot - U.S. shoot.”

But the Sheriff’s Office, said the return of residents is quite smooth. “We have not had too many problems - yet,” said Normand.

Given that electricity was restored sporadically, a few old houses were severely damaged by fire, probably from old or faulty wiring, he said. More sinister: reports of poisoning of carbon monoxide deaths in families, up from Katrina and fire to gas generators of losing power. “The water surrounding houses, and they expressed their portable generators inside,” said Normand.