MICHAEL APPLETON

HURRICANE KATRINA

Quintella Willams holds her nine-day-old baby girl, Akea, outside of the Superdome sports complex in New Orleans, LA while waiting to be evacuted from the city. Thousands of people continued to be left stranded days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.
   
People collect food dropped by an Army helicopter outside the convention center in New Orleans.
  
Flooding in New Orleans the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
     
  
A man watches, with bucket in hand, as a row of houses burns in an affluent neighborhood of New Orleans.
   
The scene outside of the Superdome as people wait to be evacuated from the city.
   
Inside the Superdome where people wait stranded in squalor four days after Hurricane Katrina hit the area.
     
  
A man waves to the sky for help in the Mid City neighborhood of New Orleans.
   
A bloated body floats in a flooded neighborhood of New Orleans.
   
Kandy Ducros and her son Keithen Adams, 4, wait with others on Route 10 on the outskirts of New Orleans after being evacuated from the city.
     
  
A couple sleeps inside an abandoned public bus in the Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans after being forced from their flooded home.
  
A National Guardsman assists people evacuating from downtown New Orleans.
   
Ann-Veronica Recasner, right, and her mother, Mildred Foley, 90, sit with other stranded New Orleans residents on an overpass in downtown New Orleans where they spent the last five days without shelter.