11.   Now, nearly two months after the flood, the affected neighborhoods remain nearly deserted, with scattered cleanup and construction crews the only signs of life.

12.   One problem, said Ken Bernstein, the director of preservation issues at the Los Angeles Conservancy, is that so few neighborhoods of ranch houses remain intact.

13.   Several neighborhoods remain cut off from traffic because streets are split open or were carried away by flash floods.

14.   The neighborhood remains one of the poorest in the city, with little hope of changing.

15.   The neighborhood remains tight-knit.

16.   But destroyed neighborhoods remain in ruins, and thousands are still homeless.

17.   But the neighborhood remains Likud territory.

18.   Entire neighborhoods remained to be searched before the rains began again.

19.   In the capital, entire neighborhoods remain buried.

20.   The gangs now focus on the drug trade, but most maintain their loyalties and the neighborhoods they control remain politically divided.