When a hurricane wipes away everything you own, you have to find humor somewhere.
Lulla Bell found it in a hot tub.
After Hurricane Katrina struck, Bell found pieces of people's lives up and down her block on Magnolia Lane in Long Beach, a small town about 5 miles west of Gulfport.
A piano leg here, a neighbor's tie hanging from a tree limb over there.
When she got around to looking in her back yard, she saw that her pool had been destroyed. But something else had taken it's place: A hot tub, from who knows where.
"You always wanted a hot tub," Bell's daughter deadpanned.
"We just started laughing so hard," Bell said. "It really broke up the tension."
Check out a a video of Bell talking about her experiences here.
Lulla Bell outside her home in Long Beach, Miss., standing next to a 300-year-old live oak.
Photo by Jack Hanrahan