Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here (But please, no Getty images)

http:www.freerepublic.com | August 29, 2005

[Howlin]

Several people have requested a thread JUST for images of the storm.

Post them here, please.

[Wolfstar]

The Shoe Station, along with the majority of business in the Edgewater Village Shopping Center, sustained extreme damage. (The Yahoo caption did not identify the community in which this shopping center is located.)

[Wolfstar]

In every situation there are always at least a few idiots out and about. These two are representative of several who went swimming in the heavy surf, or who tried to “fly” in the high winds, or who otherwise proved that some people really are dumber than a box of rocks.

In Biloxi, Mississippi (which was extremely hard hit), Mike Keller, stands in the rain while mooning Hurricane Katrina just after dawn, August 29, 2005.

Charles Anslum rides his bike through downtown Morgan City, La., as Hurricane Katrina made landfall Monday.

[Wolfstar]

The waters of Lake Pontchartrain surge over a road early Monday in Lacombe, La.

[Wolfstar]

GRETNA, LA

Cynthia Gonzales runs through the rain with a stray dog she rescued from a destroyed gas station in Gretna.

Leonard T. Harris, Sr., looks over his kitchen after the roof blew off.

Power poles are pushed over in a flooded street after Hurricane Katrina struck Gretna.

[lastchance]

Every time I see pictures of people walking in flood waters I cringe. If someone has to go out in them to move to higher ground that is one thing. But if they are just walking around they are being very foolish. They are walking in sewage. yep E. Coli out the ying yang. I wonder if public health officials are going to discuss the possibility of epidemics.

[Wolfstar]

ST. BERNARD'S PARRISH, LA

St. Bernard's Parrish deputy sheriff Jerry Reyes, center, uses his boat to rescue residents.

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A man carries a baby through flood waters as the couple abandons their car in the Terme area of New Orleans.

The Terme area of New Orleans lies under several feet of water.

Darnell Stewart rides his horse Brandy in the Terme area of New Orleans.

[Wolfstar]

NEW ORLEANS

Chest-deep water dumped from hurricane Hurricane Katrina collects in the street in New Orleans.

Two residents wading through chest-deep floods.

Windows were blown out of high-rise buildings all over the area. This one is in downtown New Orleans.

[Wolfstar]

Christian Griffin, 7, uses glow sticks to negotiate through the dark halls of his hotel as he and his family monitor the progress of Hurricane Katrina as it hits New Orleans

A man walks down a flooded street. Shattered glass, fallen brick walls, smashed up cars and trees ripped up by their roots littered the storied French Quarter after Hurricane Katrina tore through.

[Wolfstar]

Bryan Vernon and Dorthy Bell are rescued from their rooftop after Hurricane Katrina caused flooding in their New Orleans neighborhood.

Flooding takes place after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.

Shante Gruld carries Janeka Garner, 5, to safety after they were rescued from their flooded home by boat in New Orleans.

A dog waits on the side roof of a house to be rescued.

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A New Orleans city police car with its rear window broken is abandoned in flood waters on Canal Street.

Debris lies on Canal Street in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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Bourbon Street sign at the height of the storm.

The Mound Underpass on Interstate-10 is flooded near downtown New Orleans.

An Interstate-10 sign is nearly underwater near downtown New Orleans.

Heavy floodwaters block many of the roadways in and around New Orleans.

[Wolfstar]

Abandoned cars on flooded streets in downtown New Orleans.

[FR-Riverside]

If I could truthfully answer that question the post would probably be deleted instantly

[Wolfstar]

Debris from a fallen buildings covers several cars in downtown New Orleans.

[Wolfstar]

GULFPORT, MS

Gulfport police officer Jason Payne gets into his patrol car as Hurricane Katrina continues to rage at the Thomasville Apartments in Biloxi after officers rescued a woman trapped in the rubble of a fallen brick wall that crashed through her roof.

Part of a sign is seen underneath a truck as Hurricane Katrina hits a hotel in Gulfport, Mississippi

Winds from Hurricane Katrina damaged a building in Gulfport.

Waves crash against a boat washed onto Highway 80 as Hurricane Katrina strikes Gulfport.

A damaged hotel and a virtually demolished gas station in Gulfport.

[Wolfstar]

BILOXI, MS

A television station loses its broadcasting tower and roof during Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi.

According to the Yahoo news caption, Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of Biloxi.

A restaurant on US 90 in Biloxi is completely gutted by Hurricane Katrina.

Fifty-three-year-old Richard Googe looks around the Thomasville Apartments in Biloxi where he lives. Several buildings in the complex were heavily damaged as the brick sidings collapsed.

[Wolfstar]

ALABAMA

Towboat and shipyard workers walk away from Mobile Bay after an oil rig tore free of its moorings as Hurricane Katrina lashed the Alabama coast before surging downriver and smashing into a suspension bridge in Mobile.

Rescue personnel check for stranded people after Hurricane Katrina's storm surge put most of Bayou La Batre under water.

Water from Hurricane Katrina floods the road leading to the beach in Gulf Shores.

[wardaddy]

That wasn't glib.

Deport is right

[baseballfanjm]

Is that really the hurricane?

Apologies for the skepticism if it's real. It's just that I've seen similar pictures of non-hurricane clouds, roll clouds, I believe, that are passed off as hurricanes.

If it's real, it's a scary picture.