Frontline - The Old Man and the Storm (2009)

Synopsis: Just six months after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans native Herbert Gettridge, an 82-year-old resident of the Lower Ninth Ward, began to rebuild his broken home by hand. This special FRONTLINE... Just six months after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans native Herbert Gettridge, an 82-year-old resident of the Lower Ninth Ward, began to rebuild his broken home by hand. This special FRONTLINE investigation chronicles the Gettridge family’s reconstruction process over the course of two years, and probes the chain of governmental failures that left Katrina victims out in the cold. [More]

Producer: June Cross