Mississippi residents: Please, not again.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. _ Predictions that Hurricane Lili might follow the path of Tropical Storm Isidore stung like saltwater on wounds for the people still struggling to clean up and recover from their losses from last week.

Hurricane Lili could strike Mississippi, Louisiana or Texas by Thursday or Friday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported.

So for the second time in a week, Renee Chizmadia carried a small plastic bag containing birth certificates, Social Security cards and other documents to the family car. She walked past piles of wet clothing and ruined furniture outside her home in Shoreline Park.

"I'm going to put the important papers in the car, baby," Chizmadia yelled to her fiance, Melvin Luxich Jr. "That way we'll already have them packed."

Their mobile home, where the couple has lived about a year, wasn't high enough to avoid last week's floodwaters from Isidore.

"I couldn't believe how this house is so empty looking," Chizmadia said. "It's weird. We had it filled up with everything. This is our house outside."

She stood, surveying an almost surreal landscape, wearing a teal skirt that exactly matched the teal paint on her mobile home. Inside the home, in a mass-produced tapestry of the Last Supper that hung on the wall, Jesus dined on a teal tablecloth.