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You might think anyone planning to return to New Orleans after the floods of 2005 would be back by now, but many families are still painfully separated, focused on survival rather than their dreams.
Between thirty and forty percent of New Orleanians have not returned to the city since the levees failed in 2005. Some have found better lives elsewhere, but many yearn to come back. Living on Earth’s Ingrid Lobet has a portrait of one family’s struggle to return to their beloved city.