How far did the Katrina-devastated cities recover by now?

One year has passed after the Hurricane Katrina struck and ravaged the United States’ Gulf Coast — the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. But, along with the memories of the dead, the cities too do not seem to have recovered much – the still patchwork of recovery and neglect at every corner of the regions reminds of the horrifying devastations!

These two pairs of photographs

of New Orleans bridge just after Hurricane Katrina and today tell the story.

Cars cross over New Orleans’ Industrial Canal to the city’s Lower Ninth Ward in July 2006.

Two men paddle by the same bridge on August 31, 2005, two days after Katrina made landfall, eventually causing levees to fail, flooding much of the city.