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http://www.pbs.org/frontline/katrina One year after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans' bankrupt utility had yet to bring power back to areas of the lower Ninth Ward—including the home of Herbert Gettridge. In "The Old Man and the Storm," FRONTLINE follows Mr. Gettridge and his family as they struggle to rebuild their homes and their lives. Watch on air and online beginning Tues, Jan 6, 2009.

Six months after Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, producer June Cross came across 82-year-old Herbert Gettridge working alone on his home in the lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood devastated when the levees broke in August 2005. Over the next two years, Cross would document the story of the extended Gettridge clan--an African-American family with deep roots in New Orleans--as they struggled to rebuild their homes and their lives. Their efforts would be deeply impacted by larger decisions about urban planning, public health, and the insurance industry, by the decisions of policymakers about federal funding for rebuilding the Gulf, and state and city plans for dispersing those monies. The moving personal story of Mr. Gettridge and his family reveals the human cost of this tragedy, the continued inadequacies of government's response in the aftermath of Katrina, and how race, class, and politics have affected the attempts to rebuild this American city.

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[anmoose]

This is exactly my thought, but I see you got here first. Bush throws billions at the big guns on Wall Street, whose CEOs take home over 300 million a year, but he can't be bothered to help rebuild New Orleans. It's sick.

[sockpuppetsfromhell]

Yeah, they won't bail out companies they actually serve the people but they will bail out giant banks and the big 3. That's insane.

[MrGrevy]

@primroze1 Who is helping the white people that were in Katrina??

[MrGrevy]

The cops should have shot this old whining parasite.

[MrGrevy]

@anmoose LOL stfu. No one wants to help a bunch of looters. The white areas didn't have these problems you moronic idiot.

[primroze1]

Firm believer in you reap what you sow. Washington will answer for their dirty deeds, but who is helping the victims of Katrina in 2009?

[cordeliadean]

Mr. Gettridge is in his 80's and worked his whole life since his teen years. What an amazingly strong man. He and his close knit family are a testament to the American spirit. We should be ashamed by how badly our govt. let down hard working people like Mr. Gettridge.