For Those Rebuilding in New Orleans, How High?

Be careful walking out the front door of Al Petrie's new home. It's a long way down. Fourteen steps above the sidewalk, about 10 feet over the street, the front stoop is perched high like a lookout post within a fortress of brick.

New Orleans native Al Petrie is trying to take no chances with his new home, right. Post-Katrina floodwaters reached near the top of the front door of his neighbor's home. "I'll be dry," he said.

The home is built far enough up, Petrie says proudly, that "when the next Katrina comes, I'll be dry."

from the Washington Post