March 2006
by Ted Cushman
The tremendous surge from Hurricane Katrina that washed across Lake Pontchartrain and swamped New Orleans also took a serious toll on the houses in Mandeville, La. Ted Cushman, who traveled to the region to lend a hand in the recovery, was there to document two historic buildings that stood tall despite the devastating wave. This case story provides an interesting lesson in history that suggests the old-time builders in the region knew exactly what they were doing.
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Rebuilding the Gulf: Back to the Future When Katrina surged over the Mandeville seawall, two historic homes stood firm Ted Cushman The storm surge washing over a 6-foot seawall on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain packed nothing like the destructive punch of the 25-foot wall of water that scoured beaches and obliterated houses on Mississippi's Gulf Coast, a scant 90 miles away. Even so, the Pontchartrain wave took its toll on August 29, 2005. From where I stood just two weeks after the storm, I could see homes and storefronts that had been battered into scrap up and down
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