MICHAEL APPLETON

HURRICANE KATRINA

Quintella Willams holds her nine-day-old baby girl, Akea, outside of the Superdome sports complex in New Orleans, LA while waiting to be evacuted from the city.  Thousands of people continued to be left stranded days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.
  
Flooding in New Orleans the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.
  
     
  
People collect food dropped by an Army helicopter outside the convention center in New Orleans.