Dayton Daily News, September 5th, 2005
SLIDELL, La. -- Mud still covered all 950 square feet of the hardwood floors in Scott Sweeney's waterfront home on Highway 433, a narrow ribbon of asphalt across a vast marshland alongside Lake Pontchartrain.
Sweeney, 39, who returned with his wife on Sunday to inspect the damage, installed the floor, salvaging the boards from another house.
"I pulled the nails out of every board myself," Sweeney said.
Before Hurricane Katrina handed this city its worst disaster ever, Sweeney's floors sat 12 feet above the marshland and the canal running next to the dock in back of his house. Like the rest ...
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