A tattered U.S. Flag flies in the foreground of the Hyatt, in New Orleans, Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, where dozens of windows were blown out when Hurricane Katrina made land fall. ( (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Miami-Dade County firefighters use a thermal imaging camera to look under the rubble of a fallen bridge. An overpass under construction collapsed onto State Road 836 fell under the pressure of Hurricane Katrina's winds. (AP Photo/Miami Herald, Carl Juste)
David Diaz looks at the area where he and his brother used to live in the Sadler Apartments on the waterfront in Biloxi, Mississippi, August 29, 2005. The pile of rubble and empty foundations are what is left of 30 or more apartments and more than 100 of the St. Charles Condominiums. Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, stranding people on rooftops as it pummeled the historic jazz city New Orleans with 100 mph (160 kph) winds and swamped Mississippi resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater. REUTERS/Mark Wallheiser