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me saa signals
Around the comer, on North Robertson Street, a two-family home still bears the spray-painted signals of the first rescuers to float here in small boats. Whatever they found, or did not find, these authorities left behind, usually on the front of the house, jottings about pets, condition of the house, and people. A zero at the bottom indicates no human dead bodies found here.
After a year, some of these codes are no longer understood, because there were more than a score of rescue organizations, from nearby states and from various federal agencies.
“Habitat” results
Habitat for Humanity is building 70 new homes in that stricken Ninth Ward.
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