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.
The first reports of possible fatalities came out of Gulfport, Mississippi, even as the storm was still raging. Gulfport police officer Jason Payne gets into his patrol car as Hurricane Katrina continues to rage at the Thomasville Apartments in Biloxi, August 29, after officers rescued a woman trapped in the rubble of a fallen brick wall that crashed through her roof, breaking several bones. If officers in Gulfport had the command, control and communications necessary to respond like this even during the storm, why did the NOPD lose all command-and-control functions?
