Shreveport recovers from Rita

Residents of Shreveport begin cleanup efforts, documented by the Shreveport Times. Some express a necessary self-reliance:

"In the Town South neighborhood, retired Col. Larry Robertson surveyed his lawn and surmised the fortune of a better weather forecast today means it’s time for a citywide neighborhood cleanup. The threat of rain should be out of the area’s forecast by noon.

“Rita’s gone. Clean up the neighborhood. Get with it,” Robertson said. “It’s not like we can rely on FEMA to come in here.”