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Post / Craig Walker
Images from New Orleans
Photo 1: Sophie Stevens tells of her experience after being reunited with her sister Shirley Petty. Petty and her daughter Tammie Walden
drove from Ponchatoula after being informed that Sophie was sleeping on the streets near Shirleys apartment, in Metairie. Sophie had been
wandering the streets of Metairie, LA with a shopping cart containing some food and water. From New Orleans, she spent two days sitting on her
kitchen counter in her flooded apartment befor being rescued in a boat by neighbors. She was dropped off on Highway 10 then was turned away
from the convention center and told the Super Dome was full. She has a few relatives in the area but has no way of contacting them – so she
walks, in her night gown. She is afraid to ask officials for help because she is afraid she will be evacuated to Houston or another city. She
compares evacuation shelters to prison.
Photo 2: Sophie Stevens tries to rest on the porch of Bayou Daquairies on Veterans Blvd. in Metairie, LA.
Photo 3: Sophie Stevens crosses over Highway 10 as she wanders the streets of Metairie, LA. with a shopping cart containing
some food and water.
Photo 4: Roxanne Dunn (West Metro Fire, Golden, Colo.) peers through a the front door of a home while conducting a Primary
Search in the Dahlman neighborhood of New Orleans, LA. She marked the house, at right, where nobody was found. A primary search involves
checking every level of the home including the attic.The members of the Colorado Urban Search and Rescue team came to New Orleans to help
evacuate residents in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Photo 5: Steve Aseltine of West Metro Fire in Golden searches the attic of a home while conductiong a Primary Search in the
flooded Dahlman neighborhood of New Orleans, LA.
Photo 6: New Orleans residents Stanley and Queenesther Riley wait to be evacuated from a Highway 10 bridge.
Photo 7: John Saito (left), and Steve Aseltine (both of West Metro Fire in Golden) use a ladder to travel the rooftops while
conductiong a Primary Search in the Dahlman neighborhood of New Orleans.
Photo 8: John Saito uses his ax to climb atop a home while conducting a Primary Search in the Dahlman neighborhood of New
Orleans.
Photo 9: SSG Donald Jones (left), and SGT Doug Sevier of the Louisiana National Gaurd Engineer Battalion work on clearing
downed trees from the streets in the Bissonett neighborhood of Metairie, LA. on Sept. 5, the first day that residents of Jefferson Parish were
allowed back to their homes. They were asked to gather the items they would need to be away for three weeks.
Photo 10: A crumbling utility pole looms over as Kemberly Donaldson looks to the sky outside her home in the Bissonett
neighborhood of Metairie, LA. She and her family evacuated to Huston, TX, and will return there after gathering some belongings.
Photo 11: Residents stream in on highway 61 early on Monday, Sept. 5, the first day that residents of Jefferson Parish were allowed
back to their homes. They were asked to gather the items they would need to be away for three weeks.
Photo 12: Wearing a prtotective mask and using garbage bags as waders, Fran Anzelmo, passes down her flooded street while
returning to her home in Metairie, LA. She said the house still had two-and-a-half feet of water in it. She managed to gather some photos and legal
papers before returning.
Photo 13: Richard Leefe (front) and his son Eric use a canoe as they pass down their flooded street. The pair were gathering
house hold items from their home in in Metairie, LA. Richard, commented that the experiences hauntingly reminded him of when he served in
Vietnam.
Photo 14: A member of the of the Air Evacuation Squadron of the Texas Airforce Reserves tends to a hurricane survivor that was in critcal condition at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. Hurricane Katrrina could add up to worst natural disaster in US history.
Photo 15: Raymond Brown eats peanut butter crackers – the first food he says he has had in days. Brown was rescued from
his flooded home in the city, where he had no food.
Photo 16: Mary Ann Bradford prays following a catholic service at St Mary Magdalen Church in the Metairie neighborhood of
Jefferson Parrish outside of New Orleans. She and her parents spent the night of the hurricane in the church rectory and have been at home
without running water or electricity since. The service was lead by Monsenior Robert Massett, who spent the storm in the rectory with
11 members of the church.
Photo 17: Residents of the flooded Edgewood neighborhood board a truck to be evacuated after being rescued by members of the
Colorado Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue.
Photo 18: Using planks of wood to paddle their boat, Carry Harris (front) and Vernon McKay pass through the flooded Edgewood
Neighborhood of New Orleans. The pair were going to check on McKay’s mother, who was still at home in the neighborhood.
Photo 19: Lilly Mae Russell, 76, waits to be evacutated on Highway 10 after being rescued by members of the Colorado Task Force 1
Urban Search and Rescue team.
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