Parking it here

"That was my favorite color for a kitchen," Bernadette Lation said, standing in her driveway and staring inside her house at bright yellow walls covered with dark mold. Among the 519 Pontchartrain Park houses that flooded after Hurricane Katrina, the Lations' ranch-style home sat in roof-high water and muck for two weeks.

Like many people who raised children and grandchildren in the vintage 1950s neighborhood -- the first New Orleans subdivision designed to offer homeownership opportunities to middle- and upper-income black families -- Lation and her husband of 51 years, Raymond, are determined to rebuild. In April, they moved into a government trailer at the edge of their Congress Drive driveway.

from the Times Picayune