(28 Aug 2006) SHOTLIST
New Orleans, Louisiana - File/2005
1. New Orleans city sign partially underwater
2. Flooded street with Interstate 10 sign
3. Flooded neighbourhood
4. Water comes ashore
New Orleans, Louisiana - 27 August 2006
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gil Jamieson, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA):
"I'm here to say we can do it better."
6. Cutaway of news conference
7. Driving shot through neighbourhood
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gil Jamieson, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA):
"One of the problems we have down here is travel trailers, we have a lot of people who are in harm's way because of storm surge but also tropical force winds."
9. Medium shot of Roy Dilon walking into kitchen
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Roy Dilon, New Orleans resident:
"It was my hometown, I love it but at this point a loss of that magnitude to do it again? I couldn't do it, I'm gone... I'm gone."
11. Various of Joe Bernard outside home
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Joe Bernard, New Orleans resident:
"I'm not concerned about it but my family is, if a storm comes it's time to go. I don't think it will be like a Katrina."
13. Damaged homes
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Gil Jamieson, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA):
"While the science and engineering of storm forecasting is getting better but we can't let down our guard so we must remain vigilant. The EOC's (Emergency Operation Centre) in all three states I cover are on alert and will remain that way until the storm runs its course."
15. Various of New Orleans tourist areas
STORYLINE:
Just as residents of New Orleans prepare to remember on Tuesday the one year anniversary of hurricane Katrina, another storm brews in the Gulf of Mexico.
Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco activated on Sunday the state's Emergency Operations Centre in case Tropical Storm Ernesto veered west rather than continuing on a path toward Florida.
Once again emergency management offices are up and running, and emergency workers are stepping in front of the cameras to try to reassure the community.
"We can't let down our guard so we must remain vigilant. The EOC's (Emergency Operation Centre) in all three states I cover are on alert and will remain that way until the storm runs its course", said FEMA official Gil Jamieson.
A new concern this year, however, are the thousands of residents who now live in temporary trailers the federal government brought in after last year's storm.
"One of the problems we have down here is travel trailers, we have a lot of people who are in harm's way because of storm surge but also tropical force winds", said a FEMA official.
Meanwhile, resident Roy Dillon has repaired much of his home, but he doesn't even want to think about another hurricane coming his way.
"I'm not concerned about it but my family is, if a storm comes it's time to go. I don't think it will be like a Katrina", added resident Joe Bernard.
While the storm track is shifting to the east, hundreds of miles from Louisiana, emergency officials are still urging everyone to stay alert.
Until the threat passes, the city will go on with everyday business with one eye on recovery and the other on a storm 13-hundred miles away.
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