Barbara Hoover uses one of the only phones
still working in the almost-deserted French Quarter
of New Orleans Saturday morning,
Sept. 10, 2005. Hoover stayed in her
home during Hurricane to protect her dogs
and the neighborhood pets.

Rescuers on a water craft leave a long wake in floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans

A dog finds himself stuck in the muck of contaminated
floodwater in the Industrial Canal in eastern New Orleans


A stranded dog stands on the roof of a home surrounded by floodwaters