| I copied the first part of the story below from AP. Johnny Becnel was one of the folks growing oranges. I think we can tell from that that his rose crop is going to need all the TLC that Calvin can muster.
Houses and Livelihoods Gone at Tip of La.
By KIMBERLY HEFLING
ASSOCIATED PRESS
PORT SULPHUR, La. (AP) -
0912dv-hurricaneupdate The shrimp and fish are gone. The oysters are mixed with mud. Hurricane Katrina took not just Dwight Reyes' house, but the livelihood he has known as a shrimper since he was 11.
The future is filled with uncertainty for people across Plaquemines Parish, the 100-mile sliver of land through which the Mississippi River twists and curls on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. Some estimate that half the 27,000 residents will not come back.
Two-thirds of the parish was made uninhabitable by hurricane damage, and more than half of it remains flooded. Citrus groves, celebrated at an annual festival, are brown from the deluge of salt water. Many of the oil and gas workers who live here are homeless and out of work.
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