A New Orleans city police car with its rear window broken is abandoned in flood waters on Canal Street in downtown New Orleans August 29. The NOPD clearly knew on Monday that flood waters were rising in the city. Why did city officials wait until Friday before moving people to the dry west bank of the city?
Two early post-hurricane photos taken Monday in Mississippi as Katrina's dark clouds still moved overhead. Throughout the entire disaster area, including areas of Louisiana outside New Orleans, the kind of chaos and lack of local order seen in the city was almost completely absent. There were some sporadic reports of looting, but it was quickly brought under control.
Cathy Breazeale of Gulfport, Mississippi surveys damage to her home.
A view of the Sadler Apartments in Biloxi after Katrina destroyed them and close to 100 condominiums on the waterfront.
