Washington Post on Fair Grinds

Businesses Try to Rebuild After Katrina
 

By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG
The Associated Press
Wednesday, August 22, 2007; 2:45 PM

NEW YORK — It wasn’t until this past June, nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated his New Orleans coffee house, that Robert Thompson was really back in business. It took that long to clean up and rebuild after the flood waters had receded.

“It’s hard to express the experience to people,” Thompson said. “There’s not one picture or sound bite that describes it.”

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