Patchwork City: Road to New Life After Katrina Is Closed to Many
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More than two years after Hurricane Katrina hit, going home to New Orleans has become a receding dream for thousands of evacuees.
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On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, anger over the stalled rebuilding was palpable throughout a city where the mourning for the dead and feeling of loss for flooded homes, schools, snowball stands, old-time hairstylists and hardware stores doesn't seem to subside.
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By Tampone, Kevin  SYRACUSE - Among the numerous lessons of Hurricane Katrina was at least one for information-technology professionals.
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The Christian Science Monitor - It may be at the far end of the globe, but when hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans last year, many from Australia's northern port city of Darwin saw the past flash before their eyes.
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Hurricane Katrina erased much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast's past, but the deadly storm also created a blank canvas and a historic opportunity for reinventing cities like this once-quaint beach community.
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NEW ORLEANS (Sept. 14, 2004) -- The New Orleans Saints joined the mass exodus of people feeling the Big Easy and moved their base of operations to San Antonio, far from the reach of approaching Hurricane Ivan.
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Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated coastal areas of Louisiana and Mississippi, residents say they still need help. Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, was nearly destroyed by Katrina. "The mental and spiritual needs that are down here -- just still overwhelming," said a local pastor.
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Residents of a neighborhood still cordoned off because of flood damage from Tropical Storm Gaston&#39;s remnants visited their homes to retrieve what belongings of theirs remained.
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Campaigning for office is typically a shoe-leather exercise, with lots of walking through neighborhoods and knocking on doors. But that's not easily done in some of New Orleans' devastated and largely depopulated sections.
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GENERAL NAKAR, Philippines : Stunned residents picked their way through a wasteland of mud and rubble to leave storm-ravaged areas of the Philippines as the government said it has run out of money to pay for relief services.
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Habitat for Humanity International says it has built just 416 houses in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.
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Armed with college degrees and buoyed with seemingly boundless energy, many young professionals have arrived in New Orleans and taken up work two years after Hurrican Katrina. Hanging over these young people, however, is a persistent question. Will they stay?
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New Orleans is my hometown. And it's dying. Despite billions of dollars in aid, recovery programs with catchy names and an outpouring of volunteer effort, New Orleans is not recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
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CHALMETTE, Louisiana  - Eileen Schwartz stands on   the sidewalk in front of her one-story house with new, blue   siding, refurbished after the biggest environmental disaster   created by Hurricane Katrina.
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Like many other New Orleanians nearly a year after Hurricane Katrina, John McCusker was experiencing the overwhelming stress of rebuilding his life.
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New Orleans' latest plan to recover from Hurricane Katrina calls for a 10-year rebuilding program costing $14 billion that will leave some neighborhoods still sparsely populated.
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Bad weather, smashed infrastructure and logistical snarls have made it difficult to get food and medical supplies to survivors.