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Advisory Revised
Most New Orleans homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina flooding must be raised at least 3 feet to qualify for federal flood insurance, officials said Wednesday…Another...homeowner...said many people are confused by the language in the new federal regulations.  (Advocate April 13 2006)

Laura Mullen is on the faculty at Louisiana State University. She is the author of five books: The Surface (1991); After I Was Dead (1999); The Tales of Horror (1999); Subject (2005) and Murmur (2006) and a chapbook (Turn) published by dove i tail press (2006). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Prize, and several MacDowell Colony Fellowships Her prose has appeared in Civil Disobediences: Poetics & Politics in Action (Coffeehouse Press) and Paraspheres (Omnidawn).