Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Tent Cities Arise From Hurricane's Rubble

NATION/GULF COAST HURRICANES

Car wreckage is decorated with Christmas lights, a toy reindeer and painted with the message 'Merry Christmas' in the hurricane-devastated New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward section Tuesday Dec. 20, 2005. Hundreds of thousands of people remained displaced by Hurricane Katrina and property lies in ruins. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma) NEWSLINE
"I keep telling myself, one day, I will wake up and everything will be back in the place it was supposed to be."

NEWSBYTE
In Mississippi, Canvas Cities Rise Amid Hurricane's Rubble
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss., Dec. 18 (NYT) -- From a distance, it looks like an Army base camp, or perhaps the old set from the television series "M*A*S*H." But here, a little more than a stone's throw from the Gulf of Mexico, on a muddy gravel lot that used to be a Little League field, a makeshift village has emerged for some of the many families who, as winter approaches, are still homeless because of Hurricane Katrina.

TENSION: Tropical depression
GRAVITY: Season's greetings

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