Some low-lying eastern districts of New Orleans were flooded during the afternoon of August 29, but the media gathered in the French Quarter was reporting that New Orleans had been spared any major damage.
Darnell Stewart, riding his horse Brandy, patrols around a flooded business site in the Terme area of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina, August 29. (I have never seen any further info on what happened to Mr. Stewart and Brandy, but they were early heroes in New Orleans.)
The Treme area of New Orleans lies under several feet of water after Hurricane Katrina hit.
A man measures the depth of the flooded Treme area of New Orleans. Despite the flooding, a number of people in this neighborhood were seen sitting calmly on their front porches as the weather cleared Monday afternoon.
