HOUSTON – When Jermaine Moore needs a haircut, he looks for barbers from New Orleans. At a Shaving Grace barbershop in the southeast Houston area, he's found one.

"New Orleans barbers cut different," Moore said. "Our hair texture is different. This is not processed, this is my mother. But everybody can't cut it."

Moore is retired now. Before 2005, he lived a comfortable life as an IT professional in New Orleans. That changed after Hurricane Katrina destroyed his home in 2005.

While staying with family in Houston, he turned on the TV — and saw his house in the floodwaters.

"Yeah, saw my damn house on the news … watched everything float away, and looking down at that overnight bag, realizing that, and my truck outside, that's all I got left," Moore said.

After the storm, he went back to

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