This is the fiftieth update for the Hurricane Katrina disaster relief fund for the Lake Pontchartrain North Shore. This includes the Covington, Abita Springs, Mandeville, Slidell, and New Orleans, Louisiana.

This is the final report for Grace Team 4 written by Team Leader, Tom Pflederer.

“January 16, 2006, New Orleans

Lake Pontchartrain is the second largest salt-water lake in the United States, some 600 square miles of water, a small ocean. In the middle of the 24-mile long North Causeway that crosses it, all shore lines pass out of view and the horizon is an unbroken line of water and sky. One night we watch a breath-taking sunset fade to darkness and the light of a full moon dancing on the surface of the churning water, a dazzling display of beauty.

Lake Pontchartrain is also a geographic and topographic nightmare, a doomsday scenario of unfathomable proportions for sub-sea level (Read the rest of the story below the fold...)