Reuters - With solid concrete walls and roofs and laminated glass windows protected by storm shutters, a house can be built to withstand nearly any hurricane. But very few are.

Reuters - Jack Sutton's family has sold antiques and art in New Orleans's French Quarter for three generations, but if things don't getter better soon, the clan may head to Las Vegas.

Reuters - With solid concrete walls and roofs and laminated glass windows protected by storm shutters, a house can be built to withstand nearly any hurricane. But very few are.

Reuters - To hear Agnes Ferrell tell it, the only reason that President Bush has mustered federal hurricane aid for New Orleans is that Mayor Ray Nagin would not leave him alone.

Reuters - If you thought the sight of the great American jazz city New Orleans flooded to the eaves -- its people trapped in attics or cowering on rooftops -- was the nightmare hurricane scenario, think again.

Reuters - Gene and Laura Hindeland moved to New Orleans to party. Antonio Santos came for better wages that will help him get home to Guatemala. Mike and Diana Appel felt God called on them to help rebuild the city.