Nancy Mondy walks through her flood-ravaged New Orleans home in 2005.
Michael Robinson-chavez-TWP
In New Orleans, streets were flooded and homes destroyed by the hurricane.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Large portions of New Orleans remained under water more than a week after Katrina hit.
Robert A. Reeder-TWP
An aerial view of New Orleans and the Superdome, where evacuees were sent during the city's flooding. The stadium's roof was damaged by high winds.
Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post
Nancy Mody and friend Danny venture by boat into streets in New Orleans's Uptown district.
Courtland Piazza navigates his living room in Waveland, Miss., trying to open the windows to try things out. His father, Charles, looks for any thing to salvage.
Jonathan Newton-The Washington Post
Gui Nell Haynes and her husband, Gator Haynes, sit outside their Gulfport, Miss., home, where they rode out Hurricane Katrina a few days earlier.
Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post
Mike and Mary Peterson sit outside of their donated RV with their son Dakota, 2, by the Waffle House parking lot in Waveland, Miss., two weeks after Hurricane Katrina ripped through town.
Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post
Mike Peterson lost everything he owned in Bay St. Louis, Miss. He reads the paper and smokes a cigarette and reads the paper as his son Dakota naps in their donated RV.
Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post
Rescuers who had searched homes painted the outside as a signal to others, as with this home in St. Bernard Parish, La.
Sarah L. Voisin-The Washington Post
National Guard Spc. Manuel Ramos, from a San Diego unit, lifts Edgar Hollingsworth, 74, onto an ambulance gurney in front of his home in New Orleans two weeks after the storm hit.
Bruce Chambers-Associated Press
Gerald Mitchell II of Long Beach, Miss., for the first time sees what was his home before Hurricane Katrina swept the area several days earlier.
Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post
Spray paint on a car in Waveland, Miss., indicates to rescuers that it had been searched for bodies.
Jonathan Newton-The Washington Post
Caroline Warden of Bay St. Louis, Miss., weeps as she learned that her son took off from her hurricane-stricken town and moved to Nebraska for work.
Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post
Keisha Moran of Waveland, Miss., shakes the dirt off her blanket. Her family moved to a K-Mart parking lot after their home was destroyed.
Jonathan Newton-The Washington Post
Karen Tyson of Bay St. Louis, Miss., washes her daughter Darlene, 13 months, at their campsite at a Waffle House parking lot in Waveland, Miss., two weeks after Katrina.
Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post
Buildings throughout New Orleans still smoldered after the numerous fires that have broken out in the wake of Katrina. Warning signs to looters were also still prominent, more than a week after the storm.
Michael Robinson-chavez-The Washington Post
Almost a month after Katrina, boats and yachts sit, toppled on their sides, in the New Orleans Yacht Club.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
A few days after Katrina hit, a rescue boat floats down one of the city's main arteries in search of stranded residents.
Michael Robinson-Chavez-TWP
An aerial shot shows a submerged Interstate 10 and a Six Flags amusement park in the background two weeks after the hurricane. The park has been closed since the storm struck.
Robert A. Reeder-TWP
Lonnie Grant, 2, lays on his bed in the shelter at a Tower of Strength, Wall of Faith in Baton Rouge, La., which housed 88 people on Sept. 9, 2005.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Seriena Bane, 18, is comforted by Ralston Hughes Sr. as rescue workers remove the bodies of her parents and two younger brothers from their house in Waveland, Miss., a few days after Katrina.
Jonathan Newton-The Washington Post
In February 2006, months after the storm, a boy rides his bicycle through the Renaissance Village trailer park, set up by FEMA outside of Baton Rouge, La.
Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post
From left, Elizabeth Baumann, Tamra Helm, and Jill North work to rebuild a house as part of the St. Bernard Project in Meraux, La., in 2008.
Jahi Chikwendiu-The Washington Post
Lori Burke, wife of Rev. Franklin Burke, holds her husband's theology degree at the ruins of their Good Faith Baptist church in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. The degree was one of few items that they were able to recover after the storm.
Michael Williamson-The Washington Post
Renee Sims, right, originally of Orleans Parish, prepares greens for dinner for family members including her sister Alicia Smothers, left, of Jefferson Parrish and Renee's daughter Johnika Fields, 9, from their FEMA trailer outside Baton Rouge, La., in 2006.
Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post
From left, Mary Dell of New York, Susie Johnson of New Orleans and Fran Brackman of Westwego, La., celebrate the first post-Katrina Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post
A tattered U.S. flag flies in 2007 where homes devastated by Katrina once stood.
Michael Williamson-The Washington Post
Liz McCartney and Zack Rosenburg work to clean their offices in St. Bernard Parish in 2008. In just over two years, their organization has helped more than 120 families move back into their homes.
Jahi Chikwendiu-The Washington Post
Homes were rebuilt in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward, in both environmentally friendly and traditional New Orleans styles.
Linda Davidson-The Washington Post
Gallery Credits:
Photo Editor Allison Slomowitz, Megan Rossman
Producer Allison Slomowitz
