Hurricane Katrina: A look back

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Photos: Hurricane Katrina, A look back

August 29 marks the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities.

Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina fill the streets near downtown New Orleans.

Strong winds blow the roof off the Backyard Barbeque restaurant in Kenner, La., as Hurricane Katrina makes landfall.

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.

People walk along Canal Street in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina caused flooding the city.

Bay St. Louis Emergency Management Agency volunteer crews rescue members of the Taylor family from the roof of their SUV, which became trapped on Highway U.S. 90 due to flooding from Hurricane Katrina in Bay St. Louis, Miss.

A New Orleans resident is rescued from the rooftop of a home by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew as floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover the streets.

A New Orleans resident carries bottled water as she walks through oil-coated floodwaters in the downtown area.

New Orleans Police and volunteers use boats to rescue residents from a flooded neighborhood on the east side of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina left much of the city under water.

New Orleans residents gather at a evacuation staging area along Interstate 10 in Metarie, La. The residents were either evacuated by air or walked to the Interstate to escape the city besieged by flooding and lack of electricity in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Aerial view of people waiting to be evacuated at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans as water fills the streets in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Evacuees from Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans cover the stadium floor of Houston's Astrodome.

Milvertha Hendricks, 84, covered with a blanket depicting a U.S. flag, waits in the rain with other flood victims outside the convention center in New Orleans.

Evelyn Turner cries alongside the body of her common-law husband, Xavier Bowie, after he died in New Orleans. 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.

An improvised tomb conceals a body that had been lying on the sidewalk in New Orleans for days in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

A soldier patrols the street next to a house fire in the Garden District in New Orleans. Scarce running water hampered efforts of the New Orleans Fire Department.

Blae Bryce, 40, of Memphis, Tenn., prays the Lotus Sutra on an Interstate 10 overpass as floodwaters rise in New Orleans.

Leonard Thomas, 23, cries after a SWAT police team burst into the flooded home where he and his family were living in New Orleans. Neighbors had reported that the family was squatting in the house in the wake of Hurricane Katrina but the authorities left after the family proved they were the owners.

Rhonda Braden walks through the destruction in her childhood neighborhood in Long Beach, Miss. after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the area.

People take merchandise from downtown businesses in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit the area.

This NOAA satellite image made on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, at 4:57 p.m. EDT, shows Hurricane Katrina which made landfall earlier that day.

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Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina fill the streets near downtown New Orleans.

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