New Orleans Resident Determined to Stay Despite Hurricane Damage

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New Orleans native Mark Drago is determined to stay in the city despite Hurricane Katrina, which filled his Slidell home with 4 feet of floodwater and displaced most of his Gentilly sno-ball stand's customers.

I figured the odds were in my favor somewhat because I didn't get flood damage here, said Drago, 33, who owns The Original New Orleans Snowballs and Smoothee on Elysian Fields Road next to Brother Martin High School. So I'm gonna make a go of it. I can't see giving up on the city, much less the clientele, because of some bad times. I look at it like I'm starting over again. I try to keep my head up because it's nothing I've done personally. It's Mother Nature.

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New Orleans Resident Determined to Stay Despite Hurricane Damage

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