OVERLAND PARK, Kansas — For the second time Brian Hague, CEO of an investment firm popular with credit unions, found himself spending some of his vacation days on a job site instead of a beach.
Hague, CEO of CNBS LLC, an investment advisory and analytical firm headquartered in Overland, spent the first week of June helping out homeowners still out of their homes in Kenner, La., a community still recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
"Kenner really got punched because of human error more or less," Hague explained. Like many communities in south Louisiana, the town relies on a system of pumps to help keep water levels in drainage canals under control. Normally, even in severe storms, the pumps functioned well but are not automated and, during Katrina and Rita, the pump operators were evacuated and the could not get back," Hague said. "So the levels in the canals just kept rising and flooded out the community," he added.
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