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After the Water Recedes - Planning to protect your future sale
FEMA said they were safe.  And FEMA was wrong.   In the Northshore, across the lake from New Orleans, many residents are asking the question, "We bought outside of the FEMA flood zone, so WHY do I have a foot of water in my house?"  Good question.    The answer is, because life isn't perfect, there are no guarantees, and Mother Nature will not be contained - only predicted, to a small, and very uncertain degree.    But we live in Louisiana, and this is not the first, nor the last time that a "mean ol' river" has seen fit to dismantle our plans.   We have survived before, and we will survive again.   
This is not a time to think of leaving - any local ought to be able to tell you why - because, for all of it's faults, there is no other place in the entire world quite like South Eastern Louisiana - and St. Tammany Parish in particular.   Where else can you go to find the most delicious food in the world, in great abundance, matched with some of the finest musicians, arts and culture, virtually everywhere you look?Just this weekend I stood center front stage, just ... more

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