Lisa Krantz Photography

Hurricane Katrina: four months later

   
A photograph of Lionel C. Randall, Jr., left, and his brother, Kelvin J. Randall, hangs on the wall of their parents' home in the lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans on Friday, January 6, 2006.
  
     
  
Seventy-year-old Isiah Thornton takes a break from cleaning out the ruined contents of one of his rental homes where his girlfriend lived in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans as the city tries to recover from Hurricane Katrina on Friday, January 6, 2006.
   
  
Dust remains in the air after Isiah Thornton, 70, took an armload of debris out of the bathroom of one of his rental homes in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans on Friday, January 6, 2006.
     
  
Dried mud covers the pink carpet of a young girl's bedroom in a flooded home in the city of Chalmette in St. Bernard Parish on Sunday, January 8, 2006.
   
Echoing the sentiments of residents who feel they cannot bring their children back to live in the neighborhood devasated by the Murphy Oil Spill, a stuffed rabbit hangs in the doorway of a home on a street where children once played in the town of Chalmette in St. Bernard Parish.
   
A military patrol passes the remains of homes next to the Industrial Canal levee breach in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans as the sun sets on Thursday January 5, 2006. Homes closest to the breach were pushed off their foundations and reduced to rubble.