NEW ORLEANS — This deserted city's human tide began to turn Saturday as merchants and landlords were officially allowed back into the French Quarter for the first time.
But a weakened levee system and a lack of drinkable tap water will make it "extremely problematic" to follow the New Orleans mayor's timeline for allowing residents to return, the head of the federal disaster relief effort said Saturday.
The narrow streets and brick sidewalks normally filled with revelers were crowded with owners and others dealing with hurricane hangovers: cleanup crews, soldiers and police, utility workers, relief volunteers, furniture vans, garbage trucks and TV mobile satellite trucks.
As the returnees passed through checkpoints, they were handed a printed warning: "You are entering at your own risk." The two-page document urged wariness about everything from E. coli bacteria to broken traffic lights. [Read more - Palm Beach Post-Cox News Service]
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