Photo: #Mark Folse now lives in New Orleans, but he telecommutes to his IT job in Fargo, N.D. He also maintains a blog: The Wet Bank Guide.
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Mark Folse now lives in New Orleans, but he telecommutes to his IT job in Fargo, N.D. He also maintains a blog: The Wet Bank Guide. (Courtesy Audie Cornish/NPR News)

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The return to New Orleans

Broadcast: Midday, 08/29/2006, 11:06 a.m.

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Mark Folse wasn't in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. He was living in Fargo, N.D. But the Louisana native was so moved by the disaster that he picked up his family and moved 1,500 miles south to help with the rebuilding effort.

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