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Online Image Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank

A flooded mobile home surrounded by standing water and fallen tree branches, with a clay Jesus statue partially submerged in the floodwater near the porch steps.

This is my home after hurricane Rita hit. It was in Forked Island, which is in Vermilion Parish. The Jesus statue in front is made of clay. When we first came back just his head was sticking out of the water. He is still standing in that same place today, we have not touched him. Our home is gone but Jesus is still present here.

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“Online Image Contribution, Hurricane Digital Memory Bank,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/2325.

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