Biloxi woman prepares to rebuild home, life altered by storm

Published: 2006-03-02

BILOXI, Miss. (CNS) -- Six months after Hurricane Katrina, Ann Lopez no longer has the remnants of appliances and broken household items scattered across the sand-covered ground where her Biloxi home once stood. But she still does not have any signs of a home either, other than the concrete slab that was her living room and square tiling that seems almost glued to the ground where her dining room sat. Lopez, who was interviewed by Catholic News Service in early September last year, has spent the last five months living with her husband in a trailer provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The trailer sits on the family property where she grew up and raised her own family. The trailer space is confined, and she is quick to point out that she no longer owns anything. She would like nothing more than to have the trailer moved, she said March 1, so that work can begin on the rebuilding of her home, something that will be financed in part through a special promotion called "Week of Wishes" from the CBS television program "The Early Show."

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