More photos from the gulf coast, 2006
(six months after Katrina)

in & around Biloxi:

Would this sign fool anybody? Apparently. Property values along the destroyed coast are increasing.

The church-hall we were housed in is Weapon Free Zone. You have to specify.

part of a destroyed highway from Biloxi to the mainland

Our casino barge; the right-side wreckage was once a four-story steel dock.

The left is how all the Biloxi messages were; the right is as close to theatening as New Orleans got.

New Orleans, Ninth Ward:

most blocks looked like this

 
house on car; car on house

inch-deep dry cracked mud on the inside

"we are coming back"

 
Innards of houses rotting; it would be more work to fix them than to raze them and build from scratch.

Enough destruction: here are some positive things happening:

Biloxi's Buddhist temple, rebuilt
(There's actually a significant Vietnamese population there.)

 
roofing; salvaging donations from ("looting") the casino barge; planting trees at an elementary school