ROOFLESS KITCHEN -- Leonard Harris Sr. looks over his kitchen after the roof blew off in Gretna, La., Aug. 29. Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast Aug. 29, battering the historic jazz city of New Orleans with 145 mph winds, swamping Mississippi resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater and stranding people on rooftops.

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