It’s amazing how little changed in Gulfport, Miss., over the last four months since Katrina came ashore.
The remains of once-stately homes along sit practically untouched along Highway 90, the ribbon of road that traces the Gulf of Mexico.

Video from Gulfport

Some home sites have been cleared, but there is still so much devastation that it feels like the storm came through last week.
Trees are still littered with clothes and plastic bags 20 feet up. The Grand Casino looks untouched since the storm hit, though it appears scrap metal recyclers have scoured the area of anything they can sell for a few bucks.
Battered personal watercraft sit along the road way, cars are upside down or stuck in three feet of mucky soil.  Leisure boats are in yards and a few truck bodies poke from the sea.
Some people have moved trailers on to the foundation where their homes once stood.
People spray painted their addresses on remaining concrete walls, or sidewalks, or driveways.
A few businesses in downtown Gulfport are open – like a flower store – but most are closed and show little sign of resurrection from the current owner. One business with no windows or a door had a for-rent sign in the window.
Real or not, it was funny. So was the site of a personal watercraft sitting in the yard of what probably was the site of a stately antebellum home. A stuffed animal sat on the watercraft, as if it had been driving.