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Working with FEMA: (I'm from the government--I'm here to help).(Federal Emergency Management Agency)
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The Associated Press reported on September 25, 2007. New Orleans--nearly 2, 000 pages spell out in excruciating detail something that is plain to Virgil Tiller but not the Federal Emergency Management Agency. His school was destroyed and needs to be rebuilt.
FEMA has yet to find the school is 51 percent destroyed--the clerical benchmark that must be reached before the agency will pay to completely rebuild something. And so, two years after Katrina, while the state and federal government haggle over the extent of the damage, the school lies empty, a ruin of toppled bricks, sagging roofs, and missing window panes.
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