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Article: The road to recovery along the Gulf Coast: after Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi and Alabama residents are rebuilding their lives and communities.
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- Ebony
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- September 1, 2006
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It's a year later. While the world's attention focuses on the recovery in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States, also ravaged the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf Coasts. As is the case in New Orleans, thousands of hurricane survivors along the Gulf Coast are still picking up the pieces of their shattered lives.
To better understand the effects of this disaster, take a quick look at the situation of the nine-member Collier family of Gulfport, Miss. "It takes cash for everything, and the money is running out," says mother Simone Collier, speaking of the $10,000 that's left of $80,000 in home insurance and ...