Biloxi in USA Today

From USA TODAY:

"BILOXI, Miss. — To understand how long Gulf Coast hurricane recovery is going to take, visit this city's Volunteer Village.....We needed a place for the long haul," says Jim Green of Project Teamwork, a Florida-based volunteer group that runs the camp with the Salvation Army. "Tent cities can only last so long."

This summer, the Gulf Coast is entering the next and longest recovery phase: Rebuilding houses and starting lives anew. Almost a year after the storm, Mississippi's coast has an eerie emptiness about it. Along the water, where the storm surge lifted floating casino barges and dropped them into neighborhoods, there are far more empty lots and steps leading nowhere than there are homes or businesses. Groups such as Project Teamwork and the Salvation Army plan to be here for many years."