Make It Right, actor Brad Pitt’s modernistic post-Katrina housing development in the Lower 9th Ward prepared to face tropical storm Isaac Tuesday morning. Watch as Cesar Rodriguez, Make It Right’s construction services manager, demonstrates the application the Kevlar sheets meant to protect windows from wind-born missiles traveling at up to 200 miles per hour. The supple, burlap-like sheets, screw easily into sockets provided around each glass pane. Kevlar, he explained, is the same stuff they use to make bullet-proof vests.
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