May 3 - May 17, 2006 Lake Providence, La. - Bay St. Louis, Miss. 7,756 miles to date 631 miles this leg Whew. We hardly know where to start. Nearly all of the last two weeks was spent in Hurricane Katrina’s destruction zone, and although nearly nine months have passed since this “storm of the century,” it’s mind-boggling to see for ourselves much more effort the recovery is going to take. As traveling eyewitnesses, we will attempt to describe here what you’re not necessarily hearing on the news every day, although the struggles are daily for the people who are staying and rebuilding the Gulf Coast. We should not forget them, nor should we let the media’s lack of interest in what will perhaps be a decade-long story allow them to slip from our minds. We
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