March 6th,2006. New Orleans, Louisiana. Six months after hurricane Katrina devasted the Lower 9th Ward, recovery work, slow and sometimes grim, continues at what appears to be a snail's pace. Welcome Home residents of the Lower 9th ward. Welcome to the remains of what once were neighborhoods, homes, streets, houses, families, communities. Now destroyed and not even close to returning. The ironic sign on a bicycle parked near a wrecked car.