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Images from Mississippi
Photo 1: Jasmine Davis, 10, helps unload water in Biloxi, Mississippi, at a make-shift food bank outside the Main Street Missionary Baptist Church.
Photo 2: Charity Cotton, 10 stands in the shade for a moment in Biloxi Mississippi after helping unload a truck full of water at the Main Street Missionary
Baptist Church.
Photo 3: Christy Michelle, 7, stands outside the Main Street Missionary Baptist Church in Biloxi, Mississippi. After the hurricane, the church became a food
bank and a place for people who had lost their homes to hang out.
Photo 4: Children at a Kids Camp in Biloxi, Mississippi, drew pictures of what they went through during the storm.
Photo 5: Kaitlyn Laurent, 8, holds on to her grandfather, Lee Laurent, 64, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, as her sister, Brittany Laurent, 9, looks on. Kaitlyn
and Brittany are now living with their grandparents after their father’s motel where they were staying was destroyed.
Photo 6: Christy Michelle, 7, stands outside the Main Street Missionary Baptist Church in Biloxi.
Photo 7: Brandon Fahy, 4, explores his neighborhood in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. His home, where he lived with his grandparents, was destroyed by the
storm.
Photo 8: Kaitlyn Laurent, 8, holds on to her grandfather, Lee Laurent, 64, in Bay St. Louis.
Photo 9: Christy Cottee, 7, helps hand out food and water at a church near her family’s home in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Photo 10: Norman Bleuler, 37, and his daughter Nina Bleuler, 8, share a moment together on the front porch of their home in Biloxi. The Bleuler
family is now living on their front porch because the rest of their home is a mess due to flood waters.
Photo 11: Lad Thi Ng, a Vietmanese shrimp boat worker, crosses a rope line to carries supplies to his boat in the Industrial Seaway in Gulfport,
Mississippi.Thi Ng and her family are living on the ship. They are not able to move their boat for the bay until bridges are fixed.
Photo 12: Steven Nguyen, 30, stands under the hole in the roof at the Chua Van Duc Buddhist Temple, in Biloxi. Nguyen and about 50 others climbed into the
roof of the temple during the storm.
Photo 13: Donald Thomas, 73, an artist in Biloxi, Miss. talks about the night of the storm. Thomas lives in a popular area for the Vietmanese community, which
was one of the hardest hit part of town by the storm.
Photo 14: Lan Do washes clothes in buckets of water outside the Vietmanese Chua Van Duc Buddhist Temple, in Biloxi. She is living at the temple after her
home was damaged in the storm.
Photo 15: Joe Brooks and his dog Buddy sit at where their home once stood in Biloxi. “I have nothing,” said Brooks.
Photo 16: Danny Thompson holds his 4-month-old daugher, Kaejiah Moran, as they camp out in the K-Mart parking lot in Waveland, Mississippi.
Photo 17: Dannette Broussard can’t take her eyes off her father, Kenny Vinson, after seeing him for the first time in eight days. Vinson was camped out in the
K-Mart parking lot in Waveland Mississippi when the two meet up. “I thought he was dead, I could’t find him any where” said Broussard. They both lost their homes in the
storm.
Photo 18: Tina Murphy hunts for some cleaning idems at the K-Mart in Waveland, Miss. She is trying to find stuff to keep her camp clean while she is out of
her home due to Katrina. She is worried about her family getting sick from the conditions around where she is staying.
Photo 19: The strong winds of Hurricane Katrina took out much of the small coast town of Waveland, Miss.
Photo 20: Wedding photographs lay amidst other debris after strong winds from Hurricane Katrina took out most of the small coastal town of Waveland, Miss.
Photo 21: Samuel Honnold and his dog team looked for bodies in Waveland.
Photo 22: Unable to find lodging because of widespread damage in area hotels, Denver Post photographer RJ Sangosti sleeps surrounded by gas cans on the
roof of his car in Biloxi. With hotels damaged by Hurricane Katrina, the media and rescue workers have had to make other temporary arrangements. (Photo by Rob Carr /
AP)
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