'the Old man and the Storm'

'The Old Man and the Storm' episode of Frontline that I watched tells the story of Herbert Gettridge, the old man of the title and a resident of New Orleans. The episode explains how his home was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina, but he refuses to leave it behind and tries to rebuild from the remains and so his wife can return to living with him after she moved away because of the destruction. The episode overviews Gettridge’s struggles with his home as well as detailing his scattered family who he hardly ever gets to see. There are interviews with some of them, including his son Leonard, who lives in New Orleans, but shown going through a similar struggle to his father, with his home. This episode takes a look into the financial and political sides of the fence about Hurricane Katrina's effect on New Orleans beyond just Herbert, looking into how people cope with their loses and feel as if the government isn’t helping them out in some cases. This episode really gives you an almost heartbreaking idea of what people in New Orleans, even after Katrina has long since passed, have had to go through and still do today.