Pictures of Devastation

It has been an exhausting week. Here are some pictures that summarize the devastation to people as well as property. If you have not gotten the chance, please consider giving generously to the Salvation Army or the American Red Cross.
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Evelyn Turner grieves beside the body of her husband Xavier Bowie, who had lung cancer and died on Tuesday when he ran out of oxygen.		Looting was rampant in the city after officials charged all police with finding and saving those stuck in their homes after the flooding came.
A newborn baby's tragic homecoming along the Mississippi Gulf coast.		Clara A. Brown, 4, grasped onto volunteer, Chad Meaux, as they navigated the flooded streets of New Orleans after she and her family were rescued.
Terri Jones tried to assist Dorothy Divic, 89, who was overheated and exhausted at the convention center. Read the Full Story from The Advocate - Baton Rouge, La		Terri Jones tends 89-year-old Dorothy Divic, near death and in and out of consciousness, while pleading for help from military vehicles passing the New Orleans Convention Center. Ms. Divic was to die soon after.
Flood waters from Hurricane Katrina surrounded homes on Wednesday.		Exhausted and angry crowds struggled onto buses that would deliver them from the miserable conditions of the Superdome.
The Taylor family from Bay St. Louis are rescued as flood waters rise.		An oil rig wedges itself under the Cochrane-Africatown bridge after it breaks its moorings.
Earnest Swaggerty from Irvington, Alabama surveys what's left of his home.		A man rides his bike next to what's left of the Gallery Grand Casino. The Casino was pushed from the other side of this highway to where it rests now.
Homes along the failed levees are almost completely covered.		People from all over the city try and make their way out of the water for dry ground.
A woman slowly tries to orient herself amidst the destruction of her neighborhood.		Joe Calvin tries to find possessions among the remnants of his home in Biloxi, Mississippi.
A lone car rests amid the broken sections of the Interstate 10 Bridge, northeast of New Orleans.		Residents on a signal a plea for help to anyone in the air.

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