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.
  • Flooding in New Orleans the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
  • A man watches with bucket in hand while a row of houses burns out of control in the Garden District neighborhood of New Orleans, LA on Sept. 4, 2005, almost a week after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the area. Because of severe flooding emergency personnel were unable to respond to the blaze in a timely manner.
  • Stranded New Orleans residents collect food dropped by an U.S. Army helicopter outside the Convention Center New Orleans, LA on Sept. 5, 2005, almost a week after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the area. Thousands were left stranded at the facility after being evacuated to the facility prior to the storm.
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  • Ann-Veronica Recasner, right, and her mother Mildred Foley, 90, sit with other stranded New Orleans residents on an overpass in downtown New Orleans on Sept. 3, 2005, where they spent four days without shelter following the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. They were rescued by National Guardsman later that morning.
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