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"Thank God I'm alive," said Verna Gueringer, 66, from New Orleans, who was photographed in September at an evacuation center in the Triangle with one of her few possessions, an old set of dominoes. By December, she and her daughter had moved into a rental home in Columbus, Ga., where two of her brothers already lived. Gueringer still hasn't found out what help she will receive to rebuild the home she lived in for 37 years. She is disappointed with the government, which, she said, "dropped the ball when it came to New Orleans. People did not have to die like that." Will she return to New Orleans? "It's home, but home is not really any place you want to be right now. I don't know if I'll get back."
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