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Hurricane Katrina, from a satellite, taken at 9:45 am EDT, Aug. 29, 2005.
Curtains dangle from windows blown out by high winds Monday at the downtown Hyatt Regency hotel in New Orleans. The hotel’s guests rode out the storm in windowless conference rooms.
An unidentified observer watches the approaching storm on August 25 on South Beach in a photo by Christian Calzadillas.
.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, Aug. 29, 2005, at Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile 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 , Petty Officer 2nd Class NyxoLyno Cangemi)
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Adeline Perkins carries her dog, Princess, as Lynell Batiste carries Timmy while Kewanda Batiste and Ulysses Batiste swim through the flood waters from their Lacombe, La. home on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Mari Darr~Welch)
Reine Duron-Irias is hugged by her daughter, Gloria, after they were rescued from their flooded Lacombe, La. home in the wake of Hurricane Katrina on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Mari Darr~Welch)
Saturday: Owners cheer their Chihuahuas from the starting gate in a race at Riverside Park in New York (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)