Tremé: Katrina opened the floodgates to another wave of issues

This is part three of Charisse Gibson's three-part "Tremé: Death of a neighborhood, survival of a culture" series about the downfall of the historic New Orleans neighborhood. Click here to read part one. Click here for part two.

New Orleans is no stranger to storms. We’ve faced many.
We’ve triumphed. We’ve mourned.
But what do you do when it seems the rain just won’t stop falling?

“One can only imagine if Tremé would have been allowed to develop parallel to that of Marigny and Bywater. Just think of what could have happened to the folk who lived here back then,” says Al Jackson, owner of the Tremé Petit Jazz Museum.

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