ONTD_Political's PotD: August 29, 2010.
Sunday, August 29, 2010 will mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall in Louisiana. Five years ago, Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, centered on New Orleans, as a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 125 mph (205 km/h). More than fifty levees were breached by its storm surge, causing massive flooding. Over 1,800 Gulf Coast residents lost their lives then, and damages totaled more than $80 billion - the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. Many intangible things were damaged then as well, communities were erased as their neighborhoods washed away, much of historic New Orleans was badly damaged, and frustration and anger remain towards an inadequate immediate response by the U.S. government. Collected here are images from five years ago, as well as some from the past few weeks, in New Orleans and the surrounding area.
Cars carrying residents leave downtown New Orleans ahead of Hurricane Katrina in this August 28, 2005 file photo.
REUTERS | Rick Wilking
Dawnisha Stuart sits with her belongings outside the Superdome in New Orleans on Aug. 28, 2005.
Bill Haber | AP Photo
This NOAA satellite image taken on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, at 2:02 p.m EDT, shows Hurricane Katrina, then a Category 2 storm, shortly after making landfall.
AP Photo | NOAA
Strong winds blow the roof off the Backyard Barbecue restaurant in Kenner, Louisiana, as Hurricane Katrina makes landfall on Monday morning, Aug. 29, 2005.
AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News | Irwin Thompson
A tattered American flag flies in front of the blown out Hyatt Hotel in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005.
AP Photo | Bill Haber
Adrienne Fournet, 17, center, brings water to Elise Eller, at a Hurricane Katrina evacuation center at St. Thomas More gymnasium in Baton Rouge, La., Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. Eller was among more than 150 residents of Wynhoven Health Care Center in Marrero, La., who were evacuated to the center.
THE BATON ROUGE ADVOCATE | Kerry Maloney
Blae Bryce, 40, of Memphis, Tennessee, prays the Lotus Sutra on an Interstate 10 overpass as floodwaters rise in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.
AP Photo | The Palm Beach Post, Gary Coronado
Floodwaters pour down the steps of an underground garage in New Orleans, Louisiana on Tuesday, August 30, 2005.
Marty Bahamonde | FEMA
People are stranded on a roof due to floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina on August 30th, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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A mother and her children are rescued by boat from the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans on Aug. 30, 2005.
Mario Tama | Getty Images
Alex Curtis sits in front of damage from Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Miss., on Aug, 30, 2005.
John Bazemore | AP Photo
A victim of Hurricane Katrina is evacuated by helicopter over the devastation caused by the high winds and heavy flooding in the greater New Orleans area, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.
New York Times | Vincent Laforet
Flood waters from Hurricane Katrina cover streets 30 August, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
New York Times | Vincent Laforet
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Evelyn Turner cries alongside the body of her common-law husband, Xavier Bowie, after he died in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Bowie and Turner had decided to ride out Hurricane Katrina when they could not find a way to leave the city. Bowie, who had lung cancer, died when he ran out of oxygen Tuesday afternoon.
AP Photo | Eric Gay
In this Aug. 31, 2005 picture, Rhonda Braden walks through the destruction in her childhood neighborhood in Long Beach, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the area.
AP Photo | Rob Carr
Cars lie piled up among other debris from Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Mississippi on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005.
AP Photo | David J. Phillip
New Orleans Police and volunteers use boats to rescue residents from a flooded neighborhood on the east side of New Orleans on Aug. 31, 2005.
AP Photo | Eric Gay
The First Baptist Church still stands, but in ruins after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Mississippi, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005.
AP Photo | M. Spencer Green
New Orleans residents wait to be rescued from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005 in New Orleans.
AP Photo | David J. Phillip
Containers sit among debris from Hurricane Katrina Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005, in Gulfport, Mississippi.
AP Photo | David J. Phillip
Tam Cu, from left, Jason Jackson and Linda Bryant look over the damage to Bryant's home from Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Mississippi, on Wednesday, August 31, 2005.
Dallas Morning News | Barbara Davidson
Prison inmates are held at the end of a sunken highway in New Orleans, Louisiana in this August 31, 2005 file photo.
REUTERS | Marc Serota/Files
President George W. Bush pauses after seeing damage caused by Hurricane Katrina from Air Force One on Aug. 31, 2005. Bush took his first look at the devastation as he flew to Washington, D.C., after vacationing in Crawford, Texas. The moment was one of several that came to symbolize the government's bungled response to the storm.
Susan Walsh | Associated Press
Milvertha Hendricks, 84, waits in the rain with other flood victims outside the Convention Center in New Orleans on Sept. 1, 2005.
Eric Gay | AP Photo
Evacuees and hospital patients arrive at New Orleans airport where FEMA teams had set up operations on September 1, 2005.
Michael Rieger | FEMA
Hurricane Katrina refugees cross a bridge on US 90 in a downpour September 1, 2005, as they walk out of New Orleans. August 29, 2010 the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the city and much of the US Gulf Coast. Katrina unleashed torrential rains, leading to disastrous flooding that left about 1,600 people dead, destroyed thousands of homes and marred the presidency of Obama's predecessor George W. Bush, whose administration was severely criticized for its handling of the crisis.
AFP/Getty Images | Robert Sullivan
Thousands of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina await buses to depart the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 2nd, 2005.
AFP | Getty Images
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A dead body floats in the floodwaters as Hurricane Katrina victims use a boat to help ferry people near the Superdome in New Orleans on Friday, Sept. 2, 2005.
AP Photo | St. Petersburg Times, John Pendygraft
Robin Whittington is reunited with her husband at the airport in New Orleans, Friday, Sept. 2, 2005. Whittingtons were flown in on separate helicopters after being evacuated from New Orleans.
New York Times | Vincent Laforet
Tanisha Belvin, 5, holds the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina victim Nita LaGarde, 89, as they are evacuated from the Convention Center in New Orleans on Sept. 3, 2005. Hundreds of people waited several days to be evacuated. A helping hand, no matter how young old or how old, was crucial in the early days after the hurricane.
Eric Gay | AP, Photo
A flooded cemetery from Hurricane Katrina is seen from a view aboard a U.S. Army Chinook helicopter with Bravo Company 2-4 Aviation, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, in this Sept. 3, 2005, file photo in New Orleans.
AP | Haraz N. Ghanbari
Clorestine Haney and her 6-year-old daughter cried -- after the rotor wash from landing helicopters sandblasted her daughter -- as they received their daily meal from the National Guard at the Convention Center in Downtown New Orleans on the sixth day following Hurricane Katrina.
New York Times | Vincent Laforet
The city of New Orleans pictured at dawn, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005 as fires continue to burn and water still stands in many areas of the city.
New York Times | Vincent Laforet
School buses sit swamped by the floodwaters following hurricane Katrina on September 4th, 2005 in New Orleans.
Liz Roll | FEMA
Leonard Thomas, 23, cries after a SWAT police team burst into the flooded home where he and his family were living in New Orleans on Sept. 5, 2005. Neighbors had reported that the family was squatting in the house in the wake of Hurricane Katrina but the authorities left after the family proved they were the owners.
AP Photo | Rick Bowmer
Vice Adm. Thad Allen, left, lifts a downed power line during a tour of the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in downtown New Orleans with President Bush, center, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, second left, White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, partially hidden, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, second from right, and Lt. Gen. Russ Honore, right on Monday Sept. 12, 2005.
AP Photo | Susan Walsh
An improvised tomb concealing a body that had been lying on the sidewalk in New Orleans for days in the wake of Hurricane Katrina on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005.
AP Photo | Dave Martin
(Top Photo) Robert Fontaine looks on at the scene where he fled a burning house fire in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina August 23, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Fontaine said he stayed in the house to take care of dogs who were left behind. He was using candles due to a lack of electricity when one of the dogs knocked over a candle, causing the fire. Fontaine said, "My whole life, my whole world crashed. For everyone, not just for me." (Bottom Photo) Robert Fontaine walks past a burning house fire in the 7th ward September 6, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Getty Images | Mario Tama
(Top Photo) The New Orleans Saints look on during a preseason game against the Houston Texans at the Superdome August 21, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Bottom Photo) Stranded victims of Hurricane Katrina rest inside the Superdome, which has become a makeshift shelter for hurricane vitcims, September 2, 2005 in New Orleans.
Getty Images | Mario Tama
(Top Photo) The Lower Ninth Ward is seen with homes newly constructed by the Make it Right Foundation August 24, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Bottom Photo) The devastated Lower Ninth Ward is seen with the city skyline in the background August 25, 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Getty Images | Mario Tama
(Top Photo) The reconstructed levee wall is seen in the Lower Ninth Ward August 20, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Bottom Photo) Workers rebuild the levee, which was breached by Hurricane Katrina along the Industrial Canal in the Lower Ninth Ward April 25, 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Repair work on the New Orleans levees was scheduled to be finished in time for the start of hurricane season June 1.
Getty Images | Mario Tama
(Top Photo) Young residents play football near their home in a new development built by the Make it Right Foundation in the Lower Ninth Ward August 20, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Make it Right Foundation is constructing homes for families who lost theirs in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. (Bottom Photo) A group of Amish student volunteers tour the devastated Ninth Ward February 24, 2006 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Getty Images | Mario Tama
(Top Photo) A statue of the Virgin Mary stands in an above-ground cemetery August 19, 2010 in Buras, Louisiana. (Bottom Photo) A statue of the Virgin Mary and an opened crypt are seen at an above-ground cemetery February 23, 2006 in Buras, Louisiana. The cemetery was flooded during Hurricane Katrina causing a number of coffins to float away from their crypts.
Getty Images | Mario Tama
(Top Photo) Cars travel over a bridge crossing the Industrial Canal to the Lower Ninth Ward August 23, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Bottom Photo) Two men paddle in high water by the bridge crossing the Industrial Canal to the Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area August 31, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Getty Images | Mario Tama
(Top Photo) A sign asking for information about still-unidentified coffins stands at an above-ground cemetery August 19, 2010 in Buras, Louisiana. (Bottom Photo) A sign asking for information about unidentified coffins stands at an above-ground cemetery February 23, 2006 in Buras, Louisiana. The cemetery was flooded during Hurricane Katrina, causing a number of coffins to float away from their crypts.
Getty Images | Mario Tama
(Left) Willi Lee, 84, stands inside his home that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, and which he wants to rebuild August 18, 2010 in Pearlington, Mississippi. Lee says he has received the funds to rebuild but cannot find a trustworthy builder. (Right) Willi Lee, 79, stands inside his home that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina, and which he wants to rebuild May 25, 2006 in Pearlington, Mississippi. Lee said he attempted to ride out the storm in the house but eventually was washed outside by the flooding where he was able to cling to a tree limb for hours until the floodwater subsided. Lee says a poisonous water moccasin snake clung to the limb next to him the entire time. The eye of Hurricane Katrina passed directly over Pearlington, located approximately midway between New Orleans and Biloxi, Mississippi.
Getty Images | Mario Tama
Downtown New Orleans, as it appeared in an aerial view seen on August 24, 2010.
Mario Tama | Getty Images
Actress Shauna Rappold helps lead a jazz funeral to honor Katrina victims on August 25, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Chris Graythen | Getty Images
Sara Montag, a volunteer from the group lowernine.org, cuts a board for renovation work on a house that was badly damaged during Hurricane Katrina, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans August 25, 2010. The group is renovating houses for residents to return to the neighborhood.
REUTERS | Lee Celano
Newly constructed homes by the Make it Right Foundation are seen in the Lower Ninth Ward August 24, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mario Tama | Getty Images
Visitors tour the "Covering Katrina" exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, DC, August 26, 2010. On the fifth anniversary of the hurricane's landfall, the exhibit tells the story of the media's reporting of the storm and aftermath as water covered New Orleans and resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people in the region.
SAUL LOEB | AFP/Getty Images
An intersection vacant of houses near the Inner Harbor Navigational Canal, the site of levee breaches and flooding after Hurricane Katrina, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans August 25, 2010.
REUTERS | Lee Celano
A building which housed the former Metropolitan Hospice is seen destroyed and abandoned five years after Hurricane Katrina, in the New Orleans East section of New Orleans, Sunday, Aug. 22, 2010.
AP Photo | Gerald Herbert
The Press Park housing projects, which were flooded during Hurricane Katrina, sit abandoned August 26, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mario Tama | Getty Images
People walk along the 17th Street canal levee wall August 26, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mario Tama | Getty Images
Source Galleries:
- Hurricane Katrina | Pixcetera.com
- The scars from Katrina | Pixcetera.com
- Remembering Katrina, five years ago | The Big Picture | Boston.com
- Hurricane Katrina five years later | The Frame | SacBee.com