Divorce stalks Katrina survivors

Divorce stalks Katrina survivors
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Katrina survivor Ricky Murray is trying to save his marriage

Despite heart attack, he's still trying to repair his flood-damaged home

After three years in FEMA trailer, wife is talking about divorce

Pastor says he's busy counseling couples who are stressed out; many split up
By Sean Callebs
CNN

(CNN) -- Ricky Murray was having a miserable year long before a storm named Gustav started threatening the Gulf Coast area. Now he's afraid he will lose his family because of a previous hurricane.

It has been three years since Hurricane Katrina killed more than 1,800 people when it struck, scouring Mississippi beach towns down to bare sand and rupturing the protective levees around New Orleans, Louisiana.

Eight feet of floodwater left Murray's home in Slidell, Louisiana, uninhabitable. He's been working on the house, but he and his wife and three children have been living in a FEMA trailer.

Murray also lost his job. He recently suffered a heart attack -- brought on in part by stress, according to doctors. But what's really agonizing for him is that his wife of 16 years says she is considering a divorce. Watch their difficult living situation »
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