Steve, I am having trouble with photobucket so can only post the link, but this is the Virgin Mary of the Ninth Ward.....She stands in front of steps which used to go to a house, which was washed away in Katrina. This location is at ground zero where the seawall on the Industrial Canal, which connects the river with Lake Pontchartrain, was broken by a runaway barge and unleashed a fifteen foot wall of water through the Lower Nine. You can see the old drawbridge over the Canal at left.
She became a pilgrimage site after the storm.....tour buses still stop to see Her. How She and her shell survived while everything around Her was destroyed is something of a Miracle.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/revfez/3287054074/the house in the background was a blown out shell....it has been rebuilt....this is a fairly recent photo.
