The physical losses have pretty much been communicated via the media. The emotional losses can't be put into words. Katrina has caused a ripple effect - you don't know what tomorrow will bring - or not bring.
Our church was the only building on our campus not damaged. Now we have a huge influx of weddings because couples who booked weddings at some other churches now have no church.
We have a huge influx of funerals. They are still finding bodies, just getting around to making funeral plans, or (get this)... cemeteries don't have enough people to dig graves, so they have to wait.
If I mail a letter to my neighbor across the street, it still has to go to Baton Rouge to get sorted and delivered. It takes a week to get a first class piece of mail 100 feet.
Companies we once did business with no longer exist. My bills arrive late and so do my payments to my creditors. We have five large tree stumps sticking out the ground, but can't get a business who grinds stumps to call us back - there are none to be rented anywhere.
And this is just ONE story...