By CAIN BURDEAU
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The last of the once-ubiquitous FEMA trailers
has been removed from New Orleans more than six years after
floodwalls and levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and caused the
city to flood.
On Wednesday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the
last trailer was removed Sunday. The agency said the household
living in the trailer moved into their rebuilt home last week.
New Orleans once had more than 23,000 FEMA trailers. The city
complained they were eyesores. But people relied on them so long
because of troubles that included shortfalls in funds for
rebuilding and health and personal problems.
FEMA said there were three trailers still left elsewhere in
Louisiana from the 2005 hurricane season.
