Remembering Hurricane Katrina (50 images)

In photo dated September 7, 2005 and released on September 9, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, with the pilots from Airstation Atlantic City, N.J., prepares an elderly man and woman for transport to safety from the New Orleans flood waters. (UPI Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)

A dog stares up from inside its cage in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on Friday, Sept. 16, 2005 at the Project Halo animal shelter in Gulfport, MS. The shelter is one of several which take in and care for stray animals and pets that were abandoned or otherwise separated from their owners by the storm. (UPI Photo/Billy Suratt)

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson surveys the damage left behind by Hurricane Katrina during a trip to the ravaged 9th Ward of New Orleans, Oct. 4, 2005. The 9th Ward was especially hard hit by Hurricane Katrina, and was re-flooded by Hurricane Rita just weeks later. (UPI Photo/ A.J. Sisco)

Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne patrol the outskirts of the now-empty Louisiana Superdome on Sept. 11, 2005. Thousands of people took refuge there from Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee breaks, leaving behind tons of garbage. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco)