As residents try to rebuild their lives, a non-for-profit charity called "Operation Photo Rescue" has been helping them to salvage treasured memories by restoring photographs damaged in the natural disaster.
In animal experiments, such transplants mature into adult nerve cells and insinuate themselves into the damaged cord, restoring at least some movement to an otherwise paralysed body.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and President Bush, who visited the state Wednesday to view areas damaged by Gustav, said that restoring power was the top priority in Louisiana.