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WAVELAND, Miss. -- Missionaries and students on spring break have worked in shifts to put a roof over Brenda Anderson's head before hurricane season begins June 1.
They're rebuilding the two-story, 2,500-square-foot home on a concrete slab 900 feet from the Gulf of Mexico. The slab was all that remained of her old house after Hurricane Katrina swept through, making Waveland's name a sour irony.See the full content of this document
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Coast Rebuilds Under Threat of New Storms
Staring at the empty house lots and debris piles all around her, the 61-year-old former police administrator confesses no qualms about rebuilding here.
Katrina, she says, was a "once-in-a-lifetime thing." And yet she knows better. She has lost four homes in as many decades -- three to hurricanes, one to tornadoes. Katr...See the full content of this document
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