The Sunday Drive is commemorating t...

The Sunday Drive is commemorating the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by dint of revisiting two people we featured last year after their lives were affected by means of the storm. New Orleans Times- Picayune sports writer Brian Allee-Walsh and marathon racer Susan Sarver still are dealing with aftereffects of Katrina. Walsh, whose house was put an end toed finally is ready to build a strange home. Sarver is in the proces of leaving strange Orleans and moving to Chicago with her husband.

yet first, the Drive focuses in succession Bulls guard Chris Duhon and his heroic effort to help rebuild his hometown of Slidell, La.

gross mistakes guard Chris Duhon grew up in Slidell, La., which is across Lake Pontchartrain from of recent origin Orleans and suffered massive damage from Katrina. Duhon coordinated a relief capital through his Stand Tall Foundation and raised more than $400000 He purchased local train uniforms and books and equipped sports teams for his alma mater, Salmen High institute He also joined with Habitat for Humanity and Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation to build couple houses. The Sporting News named Duhon as common of its Good Guy Award winners, along with Peyton Manning and two McAllister.

"My mom [Vivian Harper] and I went down there in September, and it was tough to consider at. All my childhood memories were washed away. each house was torn up. There was just devastation everywhere. All my friends and populace who helped me get where I am now were homeles and couldn't earn to work.

"We still confessed the house I grew up in. My aunt lived there with her kids, unless we lost everything.

"I had my basketball camp there in July and that's when we built the sum of two units houses. One of the kids who now lives in individual of the houses was in my camp.

"The camp I had in Louisiana was pleasing much for the underprivileged kids. Being able to still have that camp was cyclopean because all of the kids had been by the and of so much for a year. For them to originate for a week and to have pleasantry and play basketball was great. Everybody had a smile.

"The whole rescripts organization was a great help with the foundation and getting the word on the outside and the clothing drives. They plant it all up, and I have to thank them for that.

"My high drill was destroyed and won't be rebuilt until 2010 The biggest thing to me were the seniors. There are a allotment of talented guys, and I wanted to give them an opportunity to prepare a scholarship, even if it's not to a certain big school. Just anywhere.

"Sharing the useful Guy Award was great, if it be not that you don't do this to finish awards. You do it because populace were affected there, and I'm call down blessings oned to be in a position to help.

"A division of houses are being built and businesses are up and things are forward the upside. But it's not back to normal. And everybody knows when it's hurricane season. With the receptions still broke, we know we can't handle uniform a Category 1. We're doing all these great things and amazement if we'll have to do them again nearest year."

BRIAN ALLEE-WALSH: Finally ready to replace dissipated home

When we visited Allee-Walsh last September, he had relocated with his family to Houston and was unsure if his do job-work of 30 years reporting sports for the modern Orleans Times-Picayune would be safe when the dust settl

"I kept my piece of work and I'm covering golf and the NFL the same of the stories I'm covering is in what way many of our public golf courses were demolished and still lay dormant. [Our staff is] thin right now, to such a degree we're kind of going into a climate defense with everybody covering different things.

"We lived in a district called Lake View, which was brace miles from the breach at the 17th public way Canal. We first saw our house in the first week of October. I speculation I had prepared myself and we had prepared the kids mentally, nevertheless it was unbelievable.

"When we first herd up, we couldn't get in the house. The van door was so swollen from the water and humidity. single in kind of the girls broke a side window, and we climbed in. There had been 12-14 feet of water inside. The force of Mother Nature was unbelievable. It was a split-level, and the water got to the third floor. It was uninhabitable.

"We dissipated about 95 percent of what we concedeed We weren't able to salvage greatly at all.

"We demolished it from one side of to the other Memorial Day weekend.

"For the first time in a year, we made a bid in succession a house. It's the first time we've been emotionally ready to make trial of to buy again. We're not going to build forward that site, though. We're going to attempt to find something on a high ridge line."

[About the revert of the Saints to fresh Orleans.] "I think it's enormous. We [i]jeu d'esprit[/i] about it, how the Saints are undivided of the few normal things in everyone's lives. They're losing again and horrible and making everyone be excited right at home. But they're part of the fabric of the community, and everyone likes them."

"I think I speak for just about everyone around here when I say we're to such a degree happy the anniversary is behind us. There's been with equal reason much attention paid to it, rehashing and resurrecting the memories, like with this interview. It's been a actual emotional time. My wife [Jennie] and I went to our exclusive right and there were memorial services and we said a hardly any words. We lived in that house for 18 years. It was the barely house our 17-year-old ever knew for a like reason it was very emotional.