Hurricane Katrina
For Ivy League grads, New Orleans is the new hip place to settle down. But not all the locals are thrilled to see the Big Easy overrun by MacBooks and coffee shops.
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Volunteer crews rescue the Taylor family from the roof of their suburban during Hurricane Katrina on Monday, August 28, 2005, in Bay St. Louis, Miss.
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Residents wait to be rescued from the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans September 1, 2005.
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A covered corpse lies in the street as evacuees remain stranded outside the Convention Center in New Orleans September 3, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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A young boy is rescued from a school rooftop after he was trapped with dozens of others in high water after Hurricane Katrina August 30, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Rescuers use an old row boat to evacuate children and an elderly woman from their flooded homes in Gulfport, Miss., Aug. 29, 2005.
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Flood waters from Hurricane Katrina cover a portion of New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, a day after Katrina passed through the city.
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The Todd family huddles in the laundry room of their destroyed house August 30, 2005 in Meridian, Mississippi.
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A woman walks through chest-deep water in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.
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National Guardsmen stand watch at barricades outside the Superdome as Hurricane Katrina victims await evacuation from the flooded city of New Orleans, La.
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Residents seek higher ground on the roof of a home as flood waters from Hurricane Katrina cover streets Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005 in New Orleans.
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A woman makes her way trough a hole in the roof of a flooded house in the Lower Ninth Ward.
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Daryl Thompson holds his daughter Dejanae, 3 months, as they wait with other displaced residents on a highway in the hopes of catching a ride out of town after Hurricane Katrina August 31, 2005 in New Orleans.
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A resident sits near a burning house fire in the 7th ward September 6, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Thousands of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina wait for buses to depart the Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana September 2, 2005.
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Stranded victims of Hurricane Katrina wait outside the Superdome to be evacuated September 2, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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A man injured in a fight is carried away from the Superdome, where crowds of refugees driven from their homes by Hurricane Katrina were gathered in hopes of being evacuated from the flooded-out city of New Orleans, La.
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A National Guardsman assists people being evacuated by helicopter from downtown New Orleans to a makeshift triage center on the outskirts of the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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A house is seen with spray paint reading "Help! Dead Body Inside" September 7, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Rhonda Braden walks through the destruction in her childhood neighborhood in Long Beach, Miss., Aug. 31, 2005.
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A shaft of sunlight comes in through a hole in the damaged roof of the New Orleans Superdome, on September 2, 2005.
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