In Mississippi, Katrina recovery gaining steam

Bill and Nanka Caraway, fresh from a two-week escape to Florida, are trying to readjust to their post-Hurricane Katrina lives here: Cramped inside a government trailer. Doing laundry in a little shed outside. Fretting over the still-vacant apartment building next door. Coping with the destruction that remains all around them.
"It was nice to be able to see something that's not totally devastated," says Bill Caraway, 68. "The pace of the recovery is disappointing, to tell you the truth."

Katrina destroyed the home his family had owned since 1918, and 11 months later, they're waiting for a government check to help them rebuild. They're in the same situation as nearly everyone else on the coast: waiting, waiting, waiting.

from USA Today