As head of residential inspections in Fairfax County’s public works department, Paul Lynch has seen his share of swamped communities with Hurricane Isabel in 2003 and the 2006 flooding in Huntington. But nothing on the scale of what he saw in Louisiana, where he just returned from a two-week foray aiding recovery in Hurricane Ike-struck Cameron Parish.

Talk about the community you saw when you got down there.

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