Isaac victims in St. John Parish say recovery is slow | WVUE

Longtime neighbors of the Cambridge Subdivision still gather every afternoon in Albert Batiste's driveway to share stories.

Nowadays, though, their conversations are mostly about the struggle to return home.

Most of the debris is gone, but the neighborhood remain quiet.
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Sen. Mary Landrieu pushes for levee that would have protected St. John from Hurricane Isaac's surge | NOLA.com

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., told residents of storm-battered St. John the Baptist Parish Wednesday that it’s time to scrap the federal process that has delayed the construction of a levee that would have protected thousands of parish residents from tidal flooding brought on by Hurricane Isaac. “When the rest of the country doesn’t get funded, it’s an inconvenience. It’s a problem, etcetera, etcetera. When we don’t get funded, we drown,” she said at a meeting of parish officials at the New Wine Christian Fellowship in LaPlace, whose property is being used as the area’s disaster recovery center.

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