I received 11 feet of water in my home. (If) the United States Corps of Engineers had heeded the warnings over the last 50 years, mine, my life, my son's, my neighbors', my family's lives would not be in such turmoil.

After what happened last year, we don't want to lose again. We're better than that.

Most of the kids call her Granny and they leave their bikes at her house in the morning when they catch the (school) bus. She always has lots of animals.