Photo Gallery: Resurrecting New Orleans
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Krewe members on a float during a parade on Canal street in New Orleans. The City celebrated its first Mardi Gras since Hurricane Katrina. (Samaruddin Stewart, AOL)
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A Mardi Gras Indian on North Claiborne Street during Mardi Gras. The Indians are an African American carnival tradition and parade mostly in the city's black neighborhoods. (Mario Tama, Getty Images)
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Hurricane Katrina had little effect on the revelery on Bourbon Street in the bead-strewn French Quarter. (Samaruddin Stewart, AOL)
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In other communities the wreckage remains. A house once sat on this empty tiled floor in the Lakeview section of the city. The neighborhood, which is bordered on one side by the 17th Street Canal, was heavily damaged when the levee along the canal broke. (Samaruddin Stewart, AOL)
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With their costumes destroyed by the flooding, Mardi Gras Indians dance and chant at Sweet Lorraine's Jazz Club during an "Indian Practice" hosted by Yellow Pocahontas gang. (Samaruddin Stewart, AOL)
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Workers installing locks at the entrance to the 17th Street Canal near the Lakeview section of New Orleans, Friday. (Samaruddin Stewart, AOL)
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A group of sightseers on Tennessee Street near the intersection of Derbigny Street in the devastated Lower Ninth Ward. It has now has become an attraction for hundreds of tour groups daily. (Samaruddin Stewart, AOL)
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Apartment #137 of the Oak Island apartment complex in New Orleans East. Mold and mildew, the result of weeks of submersion in standing floodwater, cover the the entire inside of the apartment six months later. (Samaruddin Stewart, AOL)
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More damage at the Oak Island apartment complex which once housed over 1,500 tenants in 426 units. (Samaruddin Stewart, AOL)
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On the Market: A house that was not flooded on the banks of the Mississippi with a 'For Sale As Is - $30,000' sign in the devastated Ninth Ward. (Samaruddin Stewart, AOL)
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A member of the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club shows some spirits during the Zulu Paradeon Fat Tuesday. (Mario Tama, Getty Images)