While I'm sure this documentary is poignant and heartfelt, the situation is that people thinking they are getting their lives back in New Orleans are still in the denial stage of grief.

It often takes coming back, looking, and trying to make sense before a person can just finally accept that nothing is ever going to be close to what it was before Katrina.

New Orleans was a city on the edge before Katrina. Now it's just a grim reminder that it's a city just biding it's time until another Katrina finally overwhelms what remains.

Human behavior and the spirit don't always know when to back away from a disaster like this, and one in which they've had no experience. His kids are accurate: There is limited opportunities for them in New Orleans and it's hard to determine if, and when, there will ever be opportunities for them to come back.

As hard as it must be, this family, and others like them, need to settle somewhere else - together - and build a new life together, thankful they still have one another. Go back and see it with your own eyes. Cry. Mourn. And then get about the business of living with your loved ones.

But how about a link to the actual PBS documentary. You made me want to watch Mr. Gettridge's sad, if not pathetic tale, but no link?? Has it not been posted yet on the PBS site?

Isn't it interesting that there are so few responses to this article? Isn't it odd that the statistics reported in this article receive just a whisper from the MSM? How is it that a man leaving office believes that history will vindicate his legacy and remake his image into that of a hero? It is quite sad how far we have fallen as nation and yet we can't even use race as a yardstick for the tantamount failure of promises that have occurred in New Orleans. Just look to Galvestan, TX and realize that this administration has horribly failed its people and its responsibility to its citizens.

I guess Salon has a word count whenever Black films are in the cue...

Of course despite her liberal impotency..I will watch this documentary filmed by a woman of color...

Everyone who lived on the Gulf Coast (or anyone who claims they did) should get a new house, a new car, and $50k per year for the rest of there lives from the government. After all - it was Bush's fault that the storm hit.

I will watch the documentary tonight, but I'll get a first hand look at what it's like when I arrive in Biloxi, MI on Saturday for my second hurricane relief mission to the Gulf Coast. We'll be working with the Back Bay Mission in Biloxi, which is affiliated with the United Church of Christ. (http://www.backbaymission.com/) While New Orleans has gotten much of the attention (such as it is) of the media, the devastation was just as bad all along the Gulf Coast from New Orleans to Biloxi.

I don't know yet what we'll be working on or whose house it will be, but it will be a wonderful thing to help rebuild somebody's house--I can recommend it as a palliative to anyone who is outraged by the government's abandonment of the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

After three and a half years there is still an incredible amount of rebuilding to be done, and I am proud to be a part of it even in a small way.

Thank you for the continued, "fair and balanced," Katrina follow up. I rebuilt and can share the sentiments expressed in this article. After all this time I am sure many people who came back are wondering if we made the right decision. But, we did come back, for better or worse. I hope one day it will prove to have been the right decision. I would also like to compliment the people who chose to comment on the article. Your care and compassion is much appreciated. Don't forget New Orleans!

President Obama, we must never forget the devastation of hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans. We must witness your promise of "Change" unfold in a place where much of the advantages and disadvantages of society in America were and are blatently displayed.

We have a proposal in place to launch "economic recovery" without any politics. The promise of Five Billion Dollars or more by Bush, Chaney, FEMA have not been fulfilled. Now we ask that you award about half of these funds to this NGO, non government organization that will readly create green jobs, stimulate the economy, advance new energy sources, as well as restore a humanitarian spirit to this unfinished business.

We stand ready willing and able to launch this economic recovery program as a direct reflection of cooperative change in a devestated area. This is good for America as well as New Orleans.

"Frontline" continues to be the best thing on US television. It is because it is fearless. It is unafraid of power, of course, but it is also unafraid of the pressure of viewer expectations and even unafraid of nationalism. They will work with foreign documentarians, native documentarians, and anyone else.

Although I cannot say that they have no narrative logic, that they tell the truth without narrative, they come closer than the rest. This does not make them the Debbie Downer of documentaries as much as the Cassandra. We never listen, and we end up sharing her tears.

This documentary is the crashing denouement to the uplifting, tear-jerking feel-good Sundance documentary "Trouble the Water."

Not to take anything away from "The Old Man and the Storm," but why the snarky reference to an outstanding earlier documentary? Viewers of T.T.W. may have felt "uplifted" by the courage shown by Scott and Kimberly Roberts, but the subtext of T.T.W. is very much the story of our country's abandonment of the poor of New Orleans. There's no need to knock one film to build up the other.