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Katrina cleanup is no spring break
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Kevin Wenning can barely reach Katrina’s high-water mark at the top of the front door of this New Orleans home.
Students from Purdue and Alcorn State University posed for a photograph while working in Ocean Springs, Miss., during spring break.
Usually full of foliage, these trees still show the damage of Katrina, seven months after the hurricane struck.
After buildings were completely gutted, they were cleaned with a bleach solution to kill the remaining mold spores.
Purdue students did manage to get a little sun during spring break, kicking back a few moments during lunch break.
The bumper sticker on the car underneath the house says “New Orleans proud to call it home.”
Katrina picked this home off its foundation in New Orleans and deposited it in the middle of the street.
Rescue workers marked the front door of each home they searched following Katrina. The zero on the bottom of the door indicates the number of bodies found inside.
Everything from the inside of the house had to be destroyed, due to mold contamination and water damage.
Purdue students, including Andy Livingston, lived in military-style tents while working in Ocean Springs, Miss.
The hole in the roof of this house where Kevin Wenning performs yard work was made by rescue workers to access the home before floodwaters receded.
A mother’s scrapbook sits on the scrapheap, along with other family possessions, waiting to be taken to the landfill.
In New Orleans, a group of Purdue students ate and slept in a community gymnasium.
Jack and Dottie Breland describe to students the devastation of Katrina at their Ocean Springs, Miss., home.
Purdue organizer Kalen Bell brought her own tools and ventilator mask to use inside the damaged homes.
Jack Breland says thanks to representatives from Purdue and Alcorn State who helped clean up his property. At left is Pamala Morris, the assistant dean of diversity programs in Purdue’s College of Agriculture.
Purdue students Haley Resler, Andy Livingston and Scott Kastning pull nails out of the ceiling joists of Jack Breland’s Ocean Springs, Miss., home.
The Red Cross cruised through neighborhoods distributing food, water and emotional support.
Students from Alcorn State and Purdue lived and worked side-by-side in Mississippi.
Even if they didn’t have time to fully enjoy the water, students got to admire the view by eating their sack lunches on this new pier stretching into the Gulf of Mexico.