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For many Gulf Coast residents, Labor Day is spent cleaning up
Paul and Alexis Shirer walk past piles of a neighbor’s flood-damaged property Monday in the Ingleside subdivision in LaPlace, La.
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The amount in federal aid the Federal Emergency Management Agency has doled out to residents. That price tag is expected to grow . (AP)
Obama told residents. Greeting the president at the airport in New Orleans were Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal; members of the state’s congressional delegation, including Democratic Sens. Mary Landrieu and Republican David Vit-
ter, and Landrieu’s brother, Mitch, the city’s mayor. Obama toured storm damage in St. John the Baptist Parish, where subdivisions that were submerged in water from Isaac were still draining. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited the state Friday. Residents in LaPlace stood in line at a makeshift relief center in the Home Depot parking lot. As she held a bag of relief supplies, Dawn Brady, 43, couldn’t hold back the tears. “I’m so emotional, so sad. I know it’s going to be a long road ahead,”
said Brady, whose 45-year-old house took in nearly 4 feet of water. The garbage and standing water — combined with heat reaching into the 90s — created a terrible stench. More than 20 breaches had been scoured into the local levees to help drain water in the vulnerable finger of land that juts into the Gulf of Mexico, and the parish brought in pumps to help empty the floodwaters. At least seven people were killed in the storm in the U.S. — five in Louisiana and two in Mississippi. Damage estimates were still hard to come by from state agencies, but the LSU AgCenter pegged a rough estimate of at least $92 million in damage to crop yields, including losses in sugar cane, rice, corn, cotton and sweet potatoes — without counting livestock losses. MELINDA DESL AT TE (AP)
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