New Orleans
Gulfport Mississippi police officer Jason Payne gets into his patrol car as Hurricane Katrina continues to rage at the Thomasville Apartments in Biloxi August 29, 2005 after officers rescued a woman trapped in the rubble of a fallen brick wall that crashed through her roof (background), breaking several bones. Several buildings were heavily damaged as the brick siding on most of the buildings collapsed during the peak of the category four storm. The storm slammed into New Orleans on Monday with winds of 135 mph (216 kph), shutting 91 percent of the normal 1.5 million barrels per day of crude oil production in the Gulf Coast region.