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Copy to use for on-air and website promos: Finding Solid Ground A one-hour radio documentary chronicling daily life in New Orleans and coastal Louisiana, Finding Solid Ground will show how people have found a sense of security in their communities and personal lives since the hurricanes of 2005. Produced in the months after the second annversary of the storms of 2005, we provide an audio snapshot that answers the question, "What?s life like now?" with a range of perspectives. Promotional phrases and clips: Listen to (Insert station) for "Finding Solid Ground," a documentary special on daily life in New Orleans and coastal Louisiana. Producers Eve Troeh and Molly Peterson travel around the city and state to look at how residents: (Music 1) ? Long for comfort and clarity as they struggle to hold onto home. (Clip 1: Homeowner Diana Baker: "I feel unempowered. I actually feel I have no rights, to this property that I paid for." ? Deal with the ground literally shifting under their feet as coastal wetlands erode(Clip 2: St. Bernard Shrimper Paul Trosclair: "You see our here you got no levees to protect you. Marsh is gone, islands are gone. It?s bad.") (Music 2) ? Have seen as never before that each part of the city is connected. (Clip 3: Anne Milling, Uptown Resident and Founder: Women of the Storm: "Just because we were blessed on what they call the Sliver by the River, everybody that floods impacts us, every business we lose impacts us.") ? Find strength and inspiration in neighbors, new and old. (Clip 4: Broadmoor resident Virginia Saussey: "Ike doesn?t just deliver the mail, he tells you who?s back, who's rebuilding, who?s thinking about moving, who put their house on the market. I mean that?s a gift.") Hear how Louisiana is "Finding Solid Ground," (Insert date and time) on (Insert station call letters and frequency).