Summary: Cheryl Cook and a handful of her friends and neighbors have decided to stay in their lifelong homes come Hell or high water. Their homes were damaged and flooded, some destroyed, by Hurricane Katrina and broken levees, but despite being surrounded by toxic water that grows darker each day, they're determined and, at times, belligerent about staying put & staying together in the neighborhood they love. And, why should they leave, they argue -- they've survived all that Mother Nature has thrown at them in the past.