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Delux Inn hotel in Baton Rouge, with 56 rooms occupied by residents who fled there from the flooding. Family of Delos Jackson Jenkins III (his wife: Peggy, son D.J. IV) in room 127

When the storm floods covered Chalmette, LA, in six feet of water, burial tombs floated around the cemetary, this one coming to rest on a headstone.

In Punta Gorda, Florida a FEMA trailer park is wedged between a cow pasture and a jail. More than a hundred white trailers filed with hurricane refugees are lind up on a field of blinding white sand and gravel. Fights and drug deals are common. 'I…

A church pew in the Lower 9th Ward, covered in mud.

Home near 17th st canal, covered in sand: owned by the aunt/uncle of the wife of Randy Lillich

Bar of the Holiday Inn: Gulfport: two of the workers who stayed at the hotel during the storm, helping keep the place running, and still living there since their homes were destroyed. (red sweater) Carmen Quintero & Ramona Van Horn (Holiday Inn:…

Herbert Gettridge and his wife raised nine children in this house, which he built with his own hands in 1953. A year ago Katrina filled the house to the ceiling, ruining Gettridge's extensive wardrobe - scores of suits, dozens of hats, closets of…

Herbert Gettridge and his wife raised nine children in this house, which he built with his own hands in 1953. A year ago Katrina filled the house to the ceiling, ruining Gettridge's extensive wardrobe - scores of suits, dozens of hats, closets of…

Hadi returned to his ruined house, torn apart when Katrina's storm surge breached the 17th Street Canal levee last August, and found his seven year old son's dress clothes. 'I hung them there to show how quickly life can change.'

Houses on the beach at Dauphin Island, AL, where the Katrina storm blew dozens of houses of the elevated pilings which held them, ruined most of the rest which remained. Here, what was once a house on the beach, is now just the piling supports, and…