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Sunday, November 22, 2009
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Hurricane Photo Galleries from Katrina and Rita
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ JANUARY 2006 An aerial view, months after Katrina Advocate photographer Travis Spradling shows what the hurricane-devastated areas look like, more than four months after Katrina. Spradling’s photos, shot Jan. 6, show that there is still a lot of work to be done. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ SEPTEMBER 2005 Aftermath Richard Goodyear pauses near his prized 1937 Buick, as he and his wife Melanie go through their home and belongings in Arabi, La., in St. Bernard Parish. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ SEPTEMBER 2005 A Look Back A Hurricane Katrina evacuee holds a baby up for air through a massive crowd gathered outside the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans Thursday, September 1, 2005. Starting with an estimated 16,000- 20,000 people and estimated to continue through the night, evacuees were walked through the lower level of the hotel to the awaiting air-conditioned buses. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ SEPTEMBER 2005 Recovery continues Gary Eccles, fire chief for the Peru Fire Department from Peru, Illinois, watches as Joe Brocato, with the Maryland Task Force 2 Urban Search and Rescue, decontaminates a dog he found in St. Bernard Parish on Saturday afternoon. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ SEPTEMBER 2005 New Orleans, Chalmette Kenny Claiborne dances in his Chartres street home in New Orleans. Claiborne and a group of friends set up Radio Marigny by playing music and getting out reports to neighbors over his band's soundsystem. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ MARCH 2006 Westbank, Industrial canal Terry Allen, 22, of Denham Springs, examines the tattered remains of a U.S. flag flown outside Skinny's Tavern near the Industrial canal; the door had a sign on it that read 'Closed For Hurricane'. Water five to six feet deep was surrounding the area still on Tuesday, when a number of boats from the Baton Rouge area combed again for people needing rescuing. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ SEPTEMBER 2005 Baton Rouge, New Orleans: Prayers and Relief New Orleans Police Captain Bernardine Kelly, left, gets a hug from her sister Rapunzel Weaver at the relocated public housing cops district headquarters in Algiers Sunday September 4, 2005. Kelly rescued Weaver from the Convention Center in downtown New Orleans after being stranded there for four days sleeping outside without food or water and brought her to the relocated police headquarters where she has been cooking meals for the more than 80 officers based out of the site. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ MARCH 2006 New Orleans and Plaquemines Parish Recovery Zane Melancon checks out damage done to Empire in Plaquemines Parish with a rifle as he and a team of police and volunteers look for looters and prepare to remove any survivors with force if necesary. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ MARCH 2006 New Orleans Ernest L. Morial Convention Erma Jackson, 82, shaded from the sun by her son-in-law Michell Chase. Jackson's daughter, Gloria Chase, left,helps push her mother in a laundry basket to the Ernest L. Morial Convention Center. The couple had pushed Jackson all the way from mid-city. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ SEPTEMBER 2005 Finding shelter and relief Rows of cots line the floor of the Astrodome where 15,000 Hurricane Katrina evacuees have been given shelter in Houston, Tx. A steady stream of evacuees bused in from New Orleans continued to arrive at the Astrodome site long after the facility had reached capacity late Thursday. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ SEPTEMBER 2005 Leaving New Orleans A Hurricane Katrina refugee and her two babies wade through the water to an awaiting chartered bus outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Orleans. Refugees were walked through the lower level of the hotel to the awaiting air--conditioned buses. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ SEPTEMBER 2005 Evacuation, gas lines and waiting Monica Majesty from Springfield, La., fills up five-gallon gas cans at a Race Track gas station in Baton Rouge, Thursday, September 1, 2005. Majesty said the fuel was for generators her family and friends are using since they lost power in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ AUGUST 2005 Surviving the Storm Hurricane Katrina refugees make their way to the Louisiana Superdome as high waters rise around them. Advocate staff photo by Richard Alan Hannon. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ SEPTEMBER 2005 Sending in the troops President George W. Bush is greeted by Lt. Gen. Russell Honore (2nd from right), La. Gov. Kathleen Blanco, Michael Chertoff, secretary of homeland security, on his visit to the La. State OEP. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ AUGUST 2005 Southeast Louisiana underwater A colorful theme park emerges from the murky depths. Advocate staff photo by Travis Spradling |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ AUGUST 2005 New Orleans and Slidell recover Aerial of the 9th Ward area with water up to the roofs due to Hurricane Katrina. Advocate staff photo by Bill Feig |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ AUGUST 2005 Hattiesburg, Miss.: Katrina leaves devastation Rushing Avenue near 28th Avenue and Lincoln Road in Hattiesburg, Miss. Downed trees and debris cover the streets. 2theadvocate.com staff photo by Tish Pierce. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ AUGUST 2005 Survivors and the Superdome - Tuesday, August 30 Survivors wade outside the Superdome Tuesday. Area residents were urged to get to higher ground as New Orleans began flooding from levee breaks. Advocate staff photo by Richard Alan Hannon |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ AUGUST 2005 Katrina roars thru Louisiana - Monday, August 29 Clark Derbes floats briefly in the air as strong winds from the Mississippi River fill a sheet tucked into his shoes. Local residents ventured outside to survey damage and play in the strong winds after most of the severe weather had passed. |
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PHOTO GALLERY ~ AUGUST 2005 Preparing for Katrina - Sunday, August 28 The first in a series Hurricane Katrina Photo Galleries shot by Advocate and Associated Press photographer all over South Louisiana following devestation of Hurricane Katrina and the breaching of Levees in Orleans and St. Bernard Parishes. |
