Released: May 07, 2007

Katrina victims find storm is not over

Source: Kathy Chu, USA Today

For Gloria Vallery, the 20 months since Hurricane Katrina have brought a succession of financial agonies.

Too little insurance money to cover her property damage. Delays in getting a state grant for hurricane victims. Personal debt of about $40,000 to rebuild her home.

On a fixed monthly income of $1,000, Vallery worries sometimes about how she’ll make ends meet. The 71-year-old retiree lives alone in a one-story, brick-and-wood clapboard house in a quiet East New Orleans neighborhood.

“It kind of gets the best of me,” she says haltingly, wiping tears. “It’s depressing, you know.”

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