AFTERMATH OF KATRINA: BILLIOINS IN ECONOMIC LOSSES

A man questions local and federal responses to the disaster as he wades through mud at a car wash in St. Bernard Parish, east of New Orleans, on Sept. 9, 2005. Mud from the receding floodwaters caused by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee break fills many streets and parking lots. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)