The Louisiana Superdome reopened last night for the first football game since Hurricane Katrina killed 1,400 people.
The stadium - a scene of misery, frustration and death during the disaster -
has been given a multi-million-dollar facelift that included a new roof, new artificial turf, new stands and animated scoreboards.
The pre-game ceremony featured the rock bands U2 and Green Day, and 68,000 people packed the stadium for the game.
The flood forced thousands of residents to flee
the city, and less that half the city's 450,000 pre-Katrina residents have returned.
The stadium was damaged by the storm, and it became a symbol of an emergency response that was unable to protect the city or rescue its poorest residents.
While the Superdome is open again, signs of Katrina's damage remain highly visible in the city, from boarded windows in the still-shuttered Hyatt Regency Hotel next door, to dumpsters full of trash and building material, to miles of deserted neighbourhoods where rebuilding has yet to begin.