August 31, 2005, New Orleans. Evacuees approach the Superdome after rescue.
Photo: FEMA/ Jocelyn Augustino

August 31, 2005, New Orleans. Tens of thousands sought refuge in the Superdome.
Photo: Jeremy L. Grisham/ U.S. Navy

September 3, 2005, Houston, Texas. Refugee message board overflows in the Astrodome.
Photo: FEMA/ Ed Edahl

September 3, 2005, New Orleans. An evacuee is helped from the damaged Hyatt.
Photo: Brien Aho/ U.S. Navy

September 2, 2005, Houston. Refugees arrive at the Astrodome, temporary shelter for several thousand of the estimated 150,000 evacuees in the Houston area.
Photo: FEMA/ Ed Edahl

September 2, 2005, Houston Astrodome.
Photo: FEMA/ Ed Edahl

September 4, 2005, New Orleans. Scores of school buses were left to the oily floodwaters.
Photo: FEMA/ Liz Roll

August 31, 2005, New Orleans. Aerial view of the breeched levee at the Industrial Canal.
Photo: NOAA

August 30, 2005. Water flows into the city over the broken levee storm wall at the Industrial Canal, as a barge sits among homes on the wrong side of the wall.
Photo: FEMA / Jocelyn Augustino

August 31, 2005, New Orleans. Searchers chainsaw into roof to enter flooded dwelling.
Photo: FEMA/ Jocelyn Augustino