But no matter what you build there it's not going to put that back. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's three generations on my family that's been raised in that house. It looks like this now, mangled, broken, the family living room a rough chop of furniture, branches, mud. NISSEN: His family's house looked like this the day before the storm. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It floated across this yard, underneath these power lines, down this road, (INAUDIBLE) that driveway and set down right there. NISSEN: The glaring eye of Hurricane Katrina passed right over Pearlington, right over Earl Bennett's (ph) street, picked up his neighbor's house. Most likely the insurance companies will pay more, probably to them, everything in town. KIM JONES, FIRE CHIEF: And there's nothing that has happened, nothing, no place in Pearlington that is habitable at all.

NISSEN: There were about 400 households, homes here, were.

And they're only a county of about 40,000 people. SPERA: They are sandwiched between New Orleans and Biloxi. BETH NISSEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Seeing it in Pearlington, Mississippi, one of hundreds of small 'tween towns in Hancock Country slow to get help, attention. LUCIE COUNTY, FLORIDA, FIRE DEPARTMENT: They've always warned about the damage storm surge could cause, and we're really seeing it now. They didn't go, but their homes and their towns did. Some have lost nearly everything, even those who stayed behind are just as displaced as those who have scattered around the country. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.ДЄARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: We spent some time now in the small towns away from New Orleans.

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