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Katrina hits US Gulf Coast
(Reuters/AP)
Updated: 2005-08-30 12:02
The Terme area of New Orleans, the United States lies under several feet of
water after Hurricane Katrina hit August 29, 2005. Downtown is seen in the
background. Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday,
battering the historic jazz city New Orleans, swamping resort towns and lowlands
with a crushing surge of seawater and stranding people on rooftops. [Reuters]
A man puts his baby on top of his car as he and a woman abandon their car
after it started to float when Hurricane Katrina hit the Terme area of New
Orleans August 29, 2005. The White House said Monday it was willing to use the
government's emergency oil stockpile to help refiners hurt by Hurricane
Katrina's rampage through the Gulf of Mexico, but that it was too early to
decide if or how much crude should be released. The storm slammed into New
Orleans on Monday with winds of 135 mph (216 kph), shutting 91 percent of the
normal 1.5 million barrels per day of crude oil production in the Gulf Coast
region. [Reuters]
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