Alligator Farmer Vows to Stay Put Despite Flooding, Builds His Own Levee

By Sarah Sneath, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans

KAPLAN -- On a sweltering summer day, Raywood Stelly sits in a rocking chair on his front porch overlooking the business he has built from the ground up twice. Surrounding his 40 acres is a 16-foot levee, the work of a man determined not to start over a third time.