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Houses in New Orleans 8th Ward are surrounded by water in the flooded city of New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Water continues to rise after the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina which pounded the coast on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

Rescue personnel help flood victims from a boat from floodwaters in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, as water continues to rise after the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina which pounded the coast on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

St. Tammany Parish Fire District 3 fireman Mark Frosch helps Reine Duron-Irias as other firemen help her daughter, Gloria Irias, and granddaughter, Trincice Johnson, after they were evacuated from their Lacombe, La. home on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. The flood surge from Lake Pontchartrain came up two miles inland. (AP Photo/Mari Darr~Welch)

People gather to watch an oil rig that broke apart in drydock during Hurricane Katrina and is stuck on the Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge over the Mobile River Tuesday Aug. 30, 2005, in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)

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U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Justin R. Feussner, 33, of Daphne, Ala., writes down the locations of stranded individuals in need of assistance in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Monday, at Coast Guard Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Ala. With electrical power out, Feussner writes by flashlight and communicates with the Alabama Emergency Operations Center in order to coordinate search and rescue operations via his cell phone. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard by Lyno Cangemi) Posted August 30, 2005