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Katrina 366 - A year and a day in the life of a Hurricane.

366 images Created 30 Oct 2014

August 29th, 2015 marked the 10 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

10 years ago, from the day before the storm hit to the 1st anniversary, I immersed myself in the storm, its impact, aftermath and the struggle the people and the city experienced as they fought to return and rebuild.

The project 'Katrina 366' is not a 'shot a day,' it is the culmination of a year and a day relentlessly heading out to shoot photographs in and around New Orleans and the region in an effort to document and try to better understand what happened and how we might better prepare for the next '100 year storm.'

I had always hoped to publish the book 'Katrina 366,' however with rarely any available spare time and limited finances, the task continues to prove elusive. Images from this project have been published worldwide and have appeared on the cover of Newsweek, in books such as the original version of Chris Rose's 'One Dead in Attic,' and in both Spike Lee's movies - 'When the Levees Broke' and 'If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise.'

The show 'Katrina 366' was originally hosted at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery,' and toured the country. Various museums and galleries hold prints and certain images appeared as part of the 10 year anniversary commemmorations. Six images were hung at the REVERB show at the Contemporary Art Center which opened on White Linen Night, August 1st, 2015 and showed until November 2015. Work also appeared in the Lower 9th ward and in Maryland for the 10 year anniversary.

My work didn't just end at the 1st anniversary of hurricane Katrina. I have continued to document the struggle to rebuild and return for the past decade. Many of these images remain in archives and on hard drives yet to be edited and uploaded to the website as the constant day to day struggle to survive in this business takes precedence over those things that have gone before.

One of the things I hope to do is be able to track down many of the people who appear in some of these images and I hope that by sharing them it will be possible to reconnect and discover how their lives have changed all these years later. To this end, please feel free to share this through your social media networks if you would be so kind?

If you appear in any of the images or if you know someone who does, please get in touch in order that we might meet again.

Thank you for taking the time to look through the gallery.

For a review of the show please visit; https://www.nola.com/gambit/events/art_previews_reviews/article_705fc2d3-12b4-5303-9061-c0fb4f25c2d7.html
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  • 28th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Gwendolyn Maguire with her children Ronjae, 2yrs and Ron, 3yrs wait with all their belongings outside the Superdome.
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  • 28th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. The eerily deserted streets of downtown New Orleans just hours before the devastating storm changed things forever.
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  • 28th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Thousands of people seek shelter inside the New Orleans Saints' Superdome the night before the storm hit.
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  • 28th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Thousands of people seek shelter inside the New Orleans Saints' Superdome the night before the storm hit. Officials brought people in from the rain and searched them for drugs, weapons and alcohol before permitting them inside the Superdome.
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  • 28th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Thousands of people sought shelter inside the New Orleans Saints' Superdome the night before the storm hit. Elderly and infirm patients, taken from hospitals and nursing homes were pushed against walls leading to the playing surface.
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  • 28th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. A man watches the approaching storm in sleeping quarters with thousands of people taking shelter in the Hyatt, New Orleans on the eve of the storm.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. Mayor Ray Nagin and top city councillors listen to the latest reports coming in on the emergency services radio.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. The tail end of Katrina rages outside the 25th floor of the Hyatt Hotel in downtown New Orleans.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. The lower 9th ward disappears under water.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. The lower 9th ward disappears under water.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. A man is rescued from the lower 9th ward after it disappeared under water.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. Rescuers collect stranded residents of the lower 9th ward after it disappeared under water.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. A victim of the catastropic flooding bobs in the murky water in the lower 9th ward.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. Rescuers collect Arthur White who smashed his way out of his attic when he became  trapped in his house in the lower 9th ward as it disappeared under water.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. Rescuers collect Faith Figueroa (1yrs), saved by local police and firefighters from her family's flooded home in the lower 9th ward.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. Fireman Neil Dugas helps 92yr old Irma Simmons evacuate the lower 9th ward after it suffered catastrophic flooding.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. An injured man from the lower 9th ward is treated for his injuries. The lower 9th suffered catastrophic flooding.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. Refugees from the flooding board vehicles for the Superdome.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. An ambulance races along Interstate 10 ferrying victims from the Lower 9th ward back into the city.
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  • 29th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, Louisiana. The calm after the storm. Few lights shine out from the Crescent City in an eerie darkness following Katrina.
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  • 30th August, 2005. Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. national guardsmen encounter hundreds of refugees from the lower 9th ward awaiting transportation to the refugee camp that is the Superdome. The thousands of people gathered on the only high ground they could find at the St Claud avenue bridge.
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  • 30th August, 2005. Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Desperation on the faces of the newly homeless as they plead for space on army transport to get them out of the lower 9th ward.
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  • 30th August, 2005. Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Pastor T.L Robinson of Victory Praise ministries on the refugee bus from the lower 9th ward to the Superdome. Mr Robinson left lost his wife in the storm and has no idea if she may be alive?
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  • 30th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Tensions run high. A drunk woman (left) starts a fight with another woman on an army refugee truck taking people from the devastated lower 9th ward to the Superdome in New Orleans.
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  • 30th August, 2005. Triage at the Superdome in New Orleans. A soldier carries a baby into safety at the Superdome having been rescued from the flooded lower 9th ward by the Louisiana National Guard.
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  • 30th August, 2005. Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. An abandoned cat is left tied to a railing as the flood waters rise outside the Superdome.
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  • 30th August, 2005. Triage at the Superdome in New Orleans. Army medevacs unload an injured man saved from the catastrophic floods.
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  • 30th August, 2005. Triage at the Superdome in New Orleans. A pregnant woman goes into labour following her rescue from the flooded lower 9th ward.
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  • 30th August, 2005. Triage at the Superdome in New Orleans. A young mother carries her baby into safety at the Superdome having been rescued from the flooded lower 9th ward by the Louisiana National Guard.
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  • 30th August, 2005. Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. An elderly woman is carried to safety as she arrives at the Superdome.
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  • 30th August, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Light streams through storm damage holes in the ceiling inside the New Orleans Saints' Superdome where as many as 20,000 refugees take shelter.
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  • 30th August, 2005. Triage at the Superdome in New Orleans. An elderly man tucks into an MRE, his first food in 2 days, rescued from the flooded lower 9th ward.
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  • 31st August, 2005. Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Refugees piled into a truck plough through the flood waters.
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  • 30th August, 2005. Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. A handicapped man is pulled to the relative safety of the Superdome by a friend following the catastrophic flooding.
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  • 31st August, 2005. 'Hell on earth.' The Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana where over 20,000 refugees from hurricane Katrina are crammed into hellish conditions. Exhausted soldiers from the Louisiana National guard take a nap outside the Superdome.
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  • 31st August, 2005. 'Hell on earth.' A child lies on the bricks at the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana where over 20,000 refugees from hurricane Katrina are crammed into hellish conditions.
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  • 31st August, 2005. 'Hell on earth.' The Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana where over 20,000 refugees from hurricane Katrina are crammed into hellish conditions. In a bizarre moment Samuel Thompson plays a last lament for New Orleans.
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  • 31st August, 2005. 'Hell on earth.' The Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana where over 20,000 refugees from hurricane Katrina are crammed into hellish conditions. A wandering child squats in the hot sunshine outside the Superdome.
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  • 31st August, 2005. Mayor Ray Nagin takes some heat from an angry refugee trapped at the Hyatt Hotel in New Orleans as he vents his frustrattion against the Govenor and the President.
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  • 1st Sept, 2005. Mass evacuation of New Orleans begins. Thousands of people mass at barriers awaiting instructions to board busses in a tense situation outside the Superdome. People collapsed and were carried away.
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  • 1st Sept, 2005. Mass evacuation of New Orleans begins. People collapse in the heat as massed crowds attempt to board busses out of New Orleans.
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  • 1st Sept, 2005. Mass evacuation of New Orleans begins. A Louisiana State Trooper holds his shotgun in the air as authorities attempt to hold back thousands of refugees on the berge of chaos awaiting busses out of New Orleans.
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  • 1st Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Mass evacuation begins. A handful of extremely nervous Louisiana State troopers are all that holds 20,000 plus people from the busses. Before evacuees were permitted on the bus the mood was extremely tense with troopers preparing safe exit routes should the crowd simply storm the Macey's mall building in their desperation to reach the busses.
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  • 1st Sept, 2005. Mass evacuation of New Orleans begins. Thousands of desperate people mass outside the Superdome hoping for a seat on a bus to take them out of New Orleans. A desperate parent holds his child above his head in an attempt to get the attention of the Louisiana National troopers.
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  • 1st Sept, 2005. Mass evacuation of New Orleans begins. Grandsons struggle to carry their Grandmother onto the first convoy of busses to leave New Orleans.
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  • 1st Sept, 2005. Mass evacuation of New Orleans begins. Faces of joy. A mother and child can not help but smile for joy as they boarde the first bus to evacuate New Orleans.
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  • 1st Sept, 2005. Mass evacuation of New Orleans begins. A lady arrives in a shopping trolley hoping to be evacuated on the busses only to be turned away having not gone through the official channels.
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  • 1st Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Mass evacuation begins. Superdome evacuees start to board the first convoy of busses out of the city. Children wait in the water.
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  • 1st Sept, 2005. Mass evacuation of New Orleans begins. A little boy boards the first bus convoy out of New Orleans.
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  • 1st Sept, 2005. Mass evacuation of New Orleans begins. A mother comes close to collapsing as she approaches the first bus leaving New Orleans.
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  • 1st Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Foreign tourists cram into the lobby of the darkened Hyatt hotel with all their belongings as they await evacuation from the flooded city.
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  • 2nd Sept, 2005. A young boy is trapped against railings in the baking sun awaiting evacuation from the hellish Superdome in New Orleans.
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  • 2nd Sept, 2005. Mayor Ray Nagin addresses the media at the Hyatt Hotel in New Orleans after a long day meeting with the President.
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  • 3rd Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Mississippi burning. A fire rages out of control along the banks of the Mississippi in New Orleans.
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  • 2nd Sept, 2005. The 'press' room at the Hyatt Hotel in downtown hell. New Orleans, Louisiana. Journalists and photographers turn out their stories in cramped, hot, dingy, stinking conditions.
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  • 3rd Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans, Louisiana. Shocked residents of the St Christopher's Inn retirement home were abandoned by their carers on the eve of the storm and left to fend for themselves.Running low on food and water Fannie Mae Waldhauser (88yrs) tried her best to remain calm before residents were rescued six days later by New Orleans 8th district police.
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  • 3rd Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Johnny White's Sports Bar on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter - with it's claim to "Never Close." The bar has remained open throughout. John Webster gives his dog Muffin a drink at the bar.
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  • 3rd Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. An army truck full of evacuees passes through the Central Business district in New Orleans.
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  • 4th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans, Louisiana. A fire rages out of control in Mid City, New Orleans.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. 'Here lies Vera - God help us.' The temporary grave of a resident of Uptown New Orleans lies at the crossroads of Magazine Street and Jackson Street in the ghost town that once was New Orleans.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. The body of 40 year old Eugenie Boyle lies in the back of a pick up truck, discarded off the Chef Mentaur Higway in East New Orleans.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. The I-10 highway in central New Orleans is deserted following the devsastating hurricane.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. On patrol in Uptown New Orleans off Napolean Ave following the devastating floods.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. A trip to uptown New Orleans along Napolean Ave. Reflections of a city that used to be. Devastating floods in Uptown New Orleans.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Murky water in Uptown New Orleans. Chemical pollution spills into the water.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. On patrol in Uptown New Orleans off Napolean Ave following the devastating floods.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Residents who refuse to leave. A lady wades through the water where some residents of Uptown New Orleans resuse to leave the devastated flood areas.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Kentucky police patrol Uptown New Orleans on Napolean Ave following the devastating floods.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Animal rescue boat. Local man Jimmy Delery (rt) and his merry band of locals assist in the search and rescue animals from the devastating floods in Uptown New Orleans.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Animal rescue boat. Daily Mirror's Ryan Parry rescues a puppy from the devastating floods in Uptown New Orleans.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Animal rescue boat. A horse is rescued from the devastating floods in Uptown New Orleans by the Kentucky Dept of Fish and Wildlife Dept.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. Animal rescue boat. William Jones hauls a dog from the water in Uptown New Orleans as he sweeps the area with friends looking for people or animals to rescue.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Derek Williams (32) swims through the murky water in Uptown as he and his family attempt to rescue their business.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. A body floats in the water near Bapist Memorial Hospital in Uptown New Orleans.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Animal rescue boat. Dogs greet each other as the sun drops in the horizon over a devastetd New Orleans.
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  • 5th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Carrolton Ave, one of New Orleans main thoroughfares lies in devastation following the wrath of Katrina.
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  • 8th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Members of the 82nd Airborn Regiment patrol the streets of the Central Business District to prevent any furthur looting and to secure the area.
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  • 8th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. A shrimp boat in East New Orleans, where the tidal surge washed over the land and devastated homes and property dumping ships on the Chef Menteur highway.
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  • 8th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Venetian Isles in East New Orleans, where the tidal surge washed over the land and devastated homes and property. John and Peggy Lala survey the damage of their mud fiolled flood ravaged home.
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  • 8th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Venetian Isles in East New Orleans, where the tidal surge washed over the land and devastated homes and property. grandmother's precious china saved from the mud at John and Peggy Lala's mud filled flood ravaged home.
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  • 8th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. The port of New Orleans sustained major damage due to the storm with potentially massive repercussions for the USA and the rest of the world.
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  • 8th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Venetian Isles in East New Orleans, where the tidal surge washed over the land and devastated homes and property. A shrimp boat rests between residential houses.
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  • 8th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Venetian Isles in East New Orleans, where the tidal surge washed over the land and devastated homes and property.
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  • 8th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Marines load up in AAV's (armoured amphibious vehicles) in East New Orleans as they continue search and rescue mssions.
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  • 8th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Corpses are finally retrieved from Methodist hospital  in East New Orleans and are loaded into the back of an unrefrigerated truck by private contractors with little to no protection. 8 corpses were already in the truck and another 5 were added. The contractor wears a T-shirt as a face mask. The stench was almost unbearable.
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  • 8th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. Venetian Isles in East New Orleans, where the tidal surge washed over the land and devastated homes and property. Two Mother Mary figurines stand in the middle of the Chef Menteur Highway amidst the hurricane damage.
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  • 8th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. New Orleans. An old lady rots in her wheelchair, dumped behind a dentist office in East New Orleans. Her body has been there for 10 days.
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  • 9th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. The Irony of a sign that hangs behind the bar at Molly's  bar on Decatur Street, the famous French Quarter that bar remained open throughout the days following the storm.
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  • 10th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. A member of the security services waits for hot food served from the Salvation Army truck parked on Canal Street.
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  • 10th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Louisiana. Bloomberg News journalist Oscar Sousa fills his car for another days reporting on the catastrophic events following the storm.
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  • 10th Sept, 2005. Deep in the heart of the Hyatt Hotel in downtown New Orleans the O.E.M. (Office of Emergency Management) takes shape. Contractors for Unisys start to rebuild the communications, command and control computer networks and infrastructure that is vital to the rebuilding of New Orleans following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Technician Brandon Haynes, working for the City of New Orleans under contract  sets up 100 computers ready for teams to get back to restoring functioning government.
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  • Sept 21st, 2005. Hurricane Katrina - Rita, New Orleans, Lousiana. Army Corps of engineers race against time to shore up weak levee defences at the 17th street canal in New Orleans in preparation for Hurricane Rita storm surge that could once again swamp the city. The Corps dammed the canal with steel plates to prevent water entering the city.
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  • Sept 21st, 2005. Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Lousiana. Houses in Slidell in Eastern New Orleans were searched for possible corpses and marked accordingly by authorities.
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  • 23rd Sept, 2005. Hurricane Rita, Port Arthur, Texas. Houston Ave. The deserted streets of downtown Port Arthur, evacuated by almost all residents.
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  • 24th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Rita, rte 27, Louisiana where the storm hit hardest on the Louisiana/Texas border. The back edge of Rita floods across the roadway.
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  • 24th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Rita, Beaumont, Texas. American TV crew gives a live report from the storm outside the Hotel Elegante in Beaumont as Hurricane Rita roars in in the early hours of Saturday morning.
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  • 24th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Rita, rte 27, Louisiana where the storm hit hardest on the Louisiana/Texas border. The back edge of Rita floods across the roadway as rescue workers attempt to reach stranded flood victims. L/R Josh Herman and his uncle Romeo Espinosa try to get to their flooded convenience store in Carlyss with an abandoned puupy they rescued and named Rita.
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  • 25th Sept, 2005. Hurricane Rita aftermath, Carlyss, Louisiana (20 miles north of ravaged Cameron). One day after the storm made landfall. Local cajun man Josh Herman (rt) helps locals and neighbours load supplies at Bayou Landing, his father's convenience store, despite the collapsed ceiling to keep people in basic food and supplies.
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