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Katrina hits US Gulf Coast
(Reuters/AP)
Updated: 2005-08-30 12:02

Power poles are pushed over in a flooded street after Hurricane Katrina struck Gretna, Louisiana August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, battering the historic jazz city New Orleans, swamping resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater and stranding people on rooftops. [Reuters]

Brandon Murray (L), Rebecca Krementz (C) and Monique Berthelot run through a parking lot at a hotel while Hurricane Katrina hits Gulfport, Mississippi, August 29, 2005. Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, stranding people on rooftops as it pummeled the historic jazz city New Orleans with 100 mph (160 kph) winds and swamped Mississippi resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater. [Reuters]


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