Inside is a outlook of absolute destruction - ceilings distorted, furniture damaged, the total contents of their home shattered and enclosed in a deep layer of mud.

Louise, known as Weezie, and John have now returned to St Bernard’s Parish, one of the most horrible hit areas of New Orleans, wherever the floodwater reached up to the rooftops of the just the once neat rows of houses.

while the duo left a month before they took tiny with them since, as Louise explains, “we not at all dreamed the levees would smash and the water arrive up to here”.

At present with agreement to come back from sunrise until nightfall they are determined to recover as much as possible.

“I would like to get my dishes and the photographs, the pictures of my son and as a baby and other personal things,” Louise explains.

Combination her in her pains are her son Johnny Pagano and daughter-in-law Tammie, who exist now a few doors along the street, and have also gone the whole thing.