At the north end of the Causeway, 24.6 miles from Metairie. Housing is booming since the storm. A recent news story reported  200 houses sold last year, 700 sold in three months after the storm, mostly to people from Chalmette and St. Bernard.

To provide some sense of scale in this disaster consider the fact that about 750 homes were substantially damaged or destroyed in the Mandeville area. This fact has gone virtually unnoticed, swamped by the much greater losses in Slidell, along the coast and in New Orleans. Consider the outcry in an American city when a natural disaster claims 750 homes.