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Frontline: "The Old Man and the Storm"

I don't think we can report/write/talk/think enough about Hurricane Katrina, and the day New Orleans drowned, and the people whose lives were affected.

Frontline's "The Old Man and The Storm" tonight at 9 p.m. on UNC-TV tells that story through one family, the Gettridges, a family split and scattered by the storm, and the family patriarch who insisted upon coming back and rebuilding, so he can bring his wife home.

There is this principle among journalists that good stories are often found by reporters who linger after the other reporters leave. Producer June Cross proves that with Mr. Gettridge, a master craftsman who not only built his home, but worked on other historic New Orleans homes. He's gotten lots of press in the local paper and appeared a few times on CNN with Anderson Cooper.

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