When Bari Landry finally returned to her New Orleans home, she expected to break the lock and see a lot of damage. What she didn't expect was to find her home had weathered the winds and subsequent floods of Hurricane Katrina.
"I just opened the lock and walked in. I felt so guilty," she says now, standing on her porch in the south Lakeview neighborhood.
The structure of her home remained, for the most part, intact. To withstand hurricanes and flooding, her 1923 Craftsman-style bungalow — in one of the city's many historic neighborhoods — had been built with a mix of impervious materials, such as plaster, cypress and slate.
These homes will be some of the easiest to save in New Orleans, preservation experts say, and should be among the first. They are the city's cornerstones, and their rebirth is New Orleans' rebirth. [Read more - abcNews]
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