Rodell and Dale Scarabin and their children outside their makeshift house in Venice, Louisiana, in January, following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In 1915, 23 people died in Venice when a hurricane hit this small community deep in Plaquemines Parish at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

This appears in the April 2006 issue of Sojourners
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