AP Wire | 05/20/2006 | Traveling U.S. 90 reveals destruction, hard times left by Katrina

AP Wire | 05/20/2006 | Traveling U.S. 90 reveals destruction, hard times left by Katrina: "BILOXI, Miss. - Out-of-towners are easy to spot on U.S 90.

Their brake lights flicker as other cars and trucks blow by. Some lean out windows and snap photos. Others jerk the wheel without warning, pulling over to stare.

Generations of travelers have gazed at the eclectic sights along U.S. 90, from the high-rises in New Orleans to the marshlands of rural southeast Louisiana to the beachfront pastiche of antebellum homes and casinos on Mississippi's coast.

That was before Hurricane Katrina. Today, the highway spans the length of an enormous disaster that struck more than eight months ago but, from the look of much of it, could have hit yesterday."