UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Ferdinand Ceaser (ph), Joseph Ceaser (ph), Jonas Ceaser (ph), Paul Ceaser (ph). Another uncle who lives down the street takes off the list of his ancestors who have lived in LaPlace. So we - you know, we just have to deal with it, you know?ĬHATLANI: This house has been in Ceaser's family for generations. But, you know, like, we just don't have nowhere to go. Flies circle around garbage.ĬEASER: You know, they had a lot of water damage. A month later, Ceaser walks inside the house.ĬEASER: The only difference is the electricity.ĬHATLANI: Along the walls, they're stinking black mold. The roof was ripped off, and it's now completely unlivable. But since Hurricane Ida ripped through this area, he's been spending most days and nights in his red truck, keeping watch over his 82-year-old uncle's house. SHALINA CHATLANI, BYLINE: Donald Ceaser Jr. We saw floodwater that has yet to recede weeks after the storm and areas where the winds had peeled back rooftops and walls, leaving whole neighborhoods and the lives of many of the people who built them in shambles. This week I toured LaPlace, along with Gulf States Newsroom reporter Shalina Chatlani. And others are facing difficult choices about whether to continue making a life here. She's one of many LaPlace residents still waiting for help from insurance companies, state and local officials or the federal government. The ceiling inside their house, water all over the place. There's (unintelligible) inside the house. I RIVERA: The roof is inside the house (laughter). MCCAMMON: The power is mostly back on for the region, but that's little consolation to the many people whose homes are still in desperate need of repair. And in my experience, I think I never see so much destruction.ĭONALD CEASER: And I think it just caught a lot of people by surprise - you know, the magnitude of everything.

IRIS RIVERA: I think this storm is the worst. It's indescribable what it looked like outside. Ida - it's over 30 days, and I haven't found the word for it. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: There is no comparison. SARAH MCCAMMON, BYLINE: I'm Sarah McCammon in LaPlace, La., where, several weeks after Hurricane Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast, the devastation it left behind remains in neighborhoods still heaped with debris and lined with row after row of houses covered in blue tarps.

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