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What Katrina started, the bulldozer finished
After not being allowed to enter Pass Christian since the Tuesday after Katrina, I returned to find my home splintered on both sides of the road. A house that was intact the day after the hurricane had been bulldozed. I was told it was because "it was in the middle of the street." I wasn't notified that my house was going to be torn down. I was informed by the "rumor hotline" that the cities would not be bulldozing homes.
Now instead of spending an hour going through our possessions to salvage what we could, we will spend weeks digging through rubble, broken boards, rusty nails, and climbing on a mountain of rubbish to find, probably, nothing. Please tell me what seems to pose more of a danger?
The response of my alderman, who passed by as we were digging, was, "The people on the beach lost millions."
I didn't live on the beach, but I would not have taken a million dollars for my mem- ories of my children, their accomplishments and personal, irreplaceable items.
The people with houses in the street should have been the first allowed back into town, but instead we came back to nothing.
CARMEN DEDEAUX
Pass Christian
Letter to the Editor Posted on Sat, Sep. 17, 2005