The Long Wait

In some parts of recuperating New Orleans, the FEMA trailer days are over.

Here, in the Lower 9th Ward, they have only just arrived.

Many homeowners across the region, having repaired their residences, want the government's contractors to come haul away the Cavalier brand trailers, which have become a symbol of New Orleans, almost as ubiquitous as a fleur-de-lis, in this post-Katrina landscape of a city on the mend.

from the Times Picayune