Photos: Hurricane Katrina in 2005
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and surrounding Gulf states in 2005.
2005: Hurricane Katrina
Airforce pararescueman staff sergeant Mike Maroney offers a touch of comfort as New Orleans, LA., resident Connie Conway, next to fellow evacuee Wayne Trepagnier Jr., and Co-Co the dog, wipes away tears after picked up from a collection point in the middle of the flooded city by a Davis-Monthan based HH-60 G Pavehawk on Monday, Sept. 5, 2005. Maroney, of the 58th Rescue sqaud, teamed with the crew and ship from the 55th, based at DM, for a day long search for victims over the battered city. Photo by Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star.
2005: Hurricane Katrina
Pararescueman technical sergeant Curtis Andes (CURTIS ANDES) drops a case of bottled water to a few people stubbornly hanging on in the flooded streets Monday, Sept. 5, 2005, of New Orleans, LA. Andes, with the 58th Rescue Squad out of Las Vegas, NV., grew up in Tucson. Photo by Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star.
2005: Hurricane Katrina
A pararescueman and an evacuee are hoisted up to a hovering HH-60 G Pavehawk on Monday, Sept. 5, 2005, over New Orleans, LA., during search and rescue flights over the battered city. Photo by Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star.
2005: Hurricane Katrina
Floodwaters surround the tombs in a cemetery Monday, Sept. 5, 2005, in New Orleans, LA. Photo by Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star.
HURRICANE KATRINA
While officials called for a mandatory evacuation of the city, many of the city's poorer residents could not leave and others chose to remain. More than 3,000 were rescued from flooded homes and hotels. New Orleans Police and volunteers use boats to rescue residents from a flooded neighborhood on the east side of New Orleans, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005. Hurricane Katrina left much of the city under water. Officials called for a mandatory evacuation of the city, but many resident remained in the city and had to be rescued from flooded homes and hotels. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
2005: Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans residents wait for transportation after being evacuated by helicopter from flooded New Orleans to Interstate-10 in Metarie, LA., on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005. The evacuees had been airlifted out of flood besieged New Orleans a few minutes earlier. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
2005: Hurricane Katrina
-- NO MAGS, NO SALES -- KRT US NEWS STORY SLUGGED: WEA-KATRINA KRT PHOTOGRAPH BY IRWIN THOMPSON/DALLAS MORNING NEWS (August 31) NEW ORLEANS, LA-- People walk along I-10 on Wednesday August, 31, 2005, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (gsb) 2005
2005: Hurricane Katrina
Terri Jones tries to cool fellow flood victim Dorthy Divic, 89, who was over heated and exausted at the convention center in New Orleans, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Officials called for a mandatory evacuation of the city, but many residents remained in the city and had to be rescued from flooded homes and hotels and remain in the city awaiting a way out. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
2005: Hurricane Katrina
Evelyn Turner cries alongside the body of her common-law husband, Xavier Bowie, after he died in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Bowie and Turner had decided to ride out Hurricane Katrina when they could not find a way to leave the city. Bowie, who had lung cancer, died when he ran out of oxygen Tuesday afternoon. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
2005: Hurricane Katrina
New Orleans residents make their way to the Superdome as a result of rising floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Water began rising in the streets Tuesday morning, swamping an estimated 80 percent of the city and prompting the evacuation of hotels and hospitals. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Michael Ainsworth)
2005: Hurricane Katrina
A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Flood waters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage when it made landfall on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
2005: Hurricane Katrina
Heaven Girod who is five-months-old is handed over to a National Guardsman as she is being evacuated from a flooded area in New Orleans August 30, 2006. Hurricane Katrina strengthened into a rare top-ranked storm and barrelled into the vulnerable U.S. Gulf Coast for a second and more deadly assault on the Gulf Coast. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
2005: Hurricane Katrina
NEW ORLEANS, LA-- Water surrounds homes just east of downtown in this aerial view of damage from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, Tuesday morning, August 30, 2005.
Katrina Anniversary
FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2005 picture, floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina pour through a levee along Inner Harbor Navigaional Canal near downtown New Orleans, a day after Katrina passed through the city. (AP Photo/Pool, Vincent Laforet) PART OF A SERIES OF 28 PICTURES NY641, TXDAM642, NY643-647, FLPAP648, NY649-661, FLPET662, NY663-667, FLPAP668 FOR USE WITH THE AUG. 29 ANNIVERSARY OF HURRICANE KATRINA
2005: Hurricane Katrina
Drivers and passengers wait outside their cars as traffic snarls on the interstate highway leaving downtown New Orleans August 28, 2005. Authorities in New Orleans ordered hundreds of thousands of residents to flee on Sunday as Hurricane Katrina strengthened into a rare top-ranked storm and barreled towards the vulnerable U.S. Gulf Coast city. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
2005: Hurricane Katrina
A Louisiana National Guardsmen holds back residents as they gather outside the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005. The Superdome opened Sunday to residents of New Orleans who are seeking shelter from Hurricane Katrina which is expected to make landfall on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
OLIVIER PERRIN OLA SCIONEAUX
Evacuees Thomas Olivier, left, Ronald Perrin, second from left, Shannon Ola, third from left, and Donald Scioneaux holding Seth Ola, 3, along with other residents of lower Jean Lafitte, La. flee rising floodwaters Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005. The community is experiencing the effects from Hurricane Rita and many homes have been flooded. (AP Photo/Ric Francis) SEPTEMBER 25, 2005 A10 Ric Francis / The Associated Press - Residents of Lafitte, south of New Orleans, are brought out by boat. All along the Louisiana coast from the Texas border to the New Orleans area, boats, helicopters and land vehicles evacuated residents whose communities had been largely spared by the disastrous Hurricane Katrina but flooded by Rita.
TOPIX HURRICANE KATRINA
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)
Ruins in Cameron, along the Gulf Coast o
Ruins in Cameron, along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, 01 October 2005, after Cameron and nearby towns were decimated by Hurricane Rita. Rapid sinking of the Louisiana coast may have lowered New Orleans levees and contributed to their failure after Hurricane Katrina, according to many experts. AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
Land surveyor Laddie Simpson walks towar
Land surveyor Laddie Simpson walks towards a pipe to pump water out of the Lakeview district directly behind the breach of the 17th Street Canal levee, 30 September 2005 in New Orleans. The breach has been patched but a contractor who worked on the job said it is only "a bandaid on an abcess" and extensive work still remains to be done to make the area safe. Business owners and residents are slowly returning to many parts of the city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina one month ago. AFP PHOTO / Robyn Beck (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
A barge sits among flooded homes in New
A barge sits among flooded homes in New Orleans' Ninth Ward 26 September 2005. The barge entered the Ninth Ward after a storm surge from hurricane Katrina caused a break in the Industrial Canal levee. New Orleans opened the gates to residents who fled two hurricanes in four weeks but they were warned the return is "at your own risk". Mayor Ray Nagin is allowing residents back into other parts of New Orleans, but residents of the Ninth Ward still have no idea if and when they will see their homes again. AFP PHOTO/Robyn BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
Katrina Changing City Glance
This combination of Aug. 30, 2005 and July 29, 2015 photos shows downtown New Orleans floolded by Hurricane Katrina and the same area a decade later. New Orleans has grown since Katrina but is still smaller than before the storm. Estimated population in 2014 was 384,320 compared to 494,294 in 2005. In 2014, the city climbed back into the nation's 50 most populous cities for the first time since Katrina. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Katrina Changing City
Crowds gather for Sunday brunch at the newly renovated St. Roch market in New Orleans, Sunday, Aug. 16, 2015. Helped by billions of dollars in recovery money, buoyed by volunteers and driven by the grit of its own citizens, New Orleans has rebounded in ways few thought possible in the ten years after Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
Katrina-First Block
In this July 24, 2015 photo, the South Seashore Avenue home of Chris Patrick looms skyward 17-feet above ground, with an additional 10-feet of each piling buried into the ground, as it lies adjacent to the beach in a Long Beach, Miss., neighborhood that lost many houses and residents from Hurricane Katrina, 10-years ago. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Katrina Rising Sea
ADVANCE FOR USE FRIDAY, AUG. 14, 2015 AND THEREAFTER - This aerial photo made during a flight provided by the National Wildlife Federation and Southern Wings shows the Lake Borne storm surge barrier in St. Bernard Parish, La., Monday, Aug. 10, 2015, which was built after Hurricane Katrina, with the skyline of New Orleans in the background. Scientists say Katrina was especially destructive because of the disappearance of buffer land between New Orleans and the Gulf. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Katrina Changing City
Debris lies in the street on an abandoned block in a residential section of New Orleans East, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. A decade ago, polluted water up to 20 feet deep flooded 80 percent of the city. Katrina killed more than 1,500 people in Louisiana, many of them drowning inside their homes, and hundreds more simply disappeared, the National Hurricane Center reported a year later. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Katrina Changing City
Plants grow on an abandoned home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in a residential section of New Orleans East, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Katrina Changing City
Steps lead to the empty foundation of a home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in the Lower 9th Ward on Forstall Street in New Orleans, just behind a new charter high school being built in the neighborhood, Monday, Aug. 17, 2015. Ironically, the fact that many homes were owned for generations worked against these homeowners, because without mortgages to pay, they weren't required to and often didn't have flood insurance, says Darryl Malek-Wiley, a Sierra Club activist working to restore the community. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
Katrina Changing City
The remnants of a home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina sits on a lot for sale on Deslonde Street in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, Monday, Aug. 17, 2015. People who talk about a renaissance in the city speak in the same breath about those didn't recover. The "New" New Orleans is whiter and more expensive to live in. African-American neighborhoods across the city still struggle, especially the chronically neglected Lower 9th Ward, a center of black home ownership before the floodwalls failed. And the murder rate is rising again. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
New Orleans Hospital
A cyclist passes by the University Medical Center New Orleans in New Orleans, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015. Ten years after the levees and floodwalls broke during Hurricane Katrina and flooded New Orleans, the city finally has a full-scale hospital again, which opened Saturday. (Brett Duke/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP) MAGS OUT; NO SALES; USA TODAY OUT; THE BATON ROUGE ADVOCATE OUT; THE NEW ORLEANS ADVOCATE OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT