Katy Reckdahl, Verite
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Wednesday officially marked 18 months since Hurricane Ida tore into Montegut, Chauvin, Pointe-aux-chenes, Dulac and other small villages along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. But it’s still common to see spans of FEMA-blue tarps covering damaged sections of roofs and walls.
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Few places illustrate the need for an extension better than Louisiana’s bayou communities, where many houses collapsed or were torn to shreds by Ida.