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Gallery: The Hurricane Katrina Photos You'll Never Forget

Aug 26, 2010 – 7:00 PM
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(Aug. 26) -- Five years after Hurricane Katrina, photos of the storm and its aftermath bring the incomprehensible scope of the devastation and suffering vividly back to life.
 
 
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Hurricane Katrina

Rhonda Braden walks through the destruction in her childhood neighborhood in Long Beach, Miss., on Aug. 31, 2005. Hurricane Katrina erased much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast's past, but the deadly storm also created a blank canvas and a historic opportunity for reinventing cities.

Hurricane Katrina

Volunteer crews rescue the Taylor family from the roof of their Suburban, which became trapped on US 90 in Bay St. Louis, Miss., because of flooding during Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 28, 2005.

Hurricane Katrina

A satellite image taken at 4:33 EDT on Aug. 28, 2005, shows Hurricane Katrina about 275 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Hurricane Katrina

Specialist Manuel Ramos, a National Guard soldier from San Diego, rescues Edgar Hollingsworth, 74, from his home in New Orleans on Sept. 13, 2005.

Hurricane Katrina

Tanisha Belvin, 5, holds the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina victim Nita LaGarde, 89, as they are evacuated from the Convention Center in New Orleans on Sept. 3, 2005. Hundreds of people waited several days to be evacuated.

Hurricane Katrina

Residents wait on a rooftop to be rescued from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina on Sept. 1, 2005, in New Orleans. At an estimated $81 billion in property damage, it is the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. But to many, especially to those in greater New Orleans, this catastrophe was anything but an act of God.

Hurricane Katrina

Some of the thousands of displaced residents take cover from Hurricane Katrina at the Superdome, a last-resort shelter, in New Orleans around midnight on Aug. 28, 2005. Officials called for a mandatory evacuation of the city, but many residents remained.

Hurricane Katrina

Residents walk through floodwaters on Canal Street in New Orleans on Aug. 30, 2005, after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts.

Hurricane Katrina

Milvertha Hendricks, 84, waits in the rain with other flood victims outside the Convention Center in New Orleans on Sept. 1, 2005.

Hurricane Katrina

A woman walks through chest-deep water in New Orleans on Aug. 30, 2005, as floodwaters continue to rise after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

Hurricane Katrina

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