Images - Disaster Services

2005 Hurricane Season

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35377 September 2005. Hurricane Katrina.	35379 September 2005. Hurricane Katrina.
35446 September 19, 2005. As residents return to Algiers, Louisiana, hit hard by Hurricane Katrina, a Red Cross first aid vehicle is on hand to help. Here, a Red Crosser checks on a resident affected by the extreme heat. Photo: Peter Teahen/American Red Cross.	35454 September 15, 2005. Houston, TX. The St. Agnes service center in Houston, run by the American Red Cross, has been distributing financial assistance to Louisiana evacuees since September 15. Photographer: Michael Seamans/ American Red Cross
35461 September 2005 - Hurricane Rita – Texas – Gene Dailey	35463 September 2005 - Hurricane Rita – Texas-- Gene Dailey
35472 September 19, 2005. Moss Point, Miss. Red Cross volunteer Vicky Brown of Rockford, Illinois, assists Wellington Hall and his father, Ernest Hall, in getting a financial assistance check at the Red Cross Financial Assistance Center at East Jackson County Service Complex in Moss Point, Mississippi. The power had been out for some time. Photo: Tim Leverett/American Red Cross	35489 September 19, 2005. American Red Cross volunteer caseworker Alan Vosko processes the paperwork for Frank Mumphrey of Chalmette, Louisiana, so that he can receive an assistance check. They are in the Isaiah Fredricks Community Center in Gulfport, Miss. The space was donated by the NAACP and operated in conjunction with the American Red Cross, the NAACP and the county government as a Red Cross Financial Assistance Center. Photo: Tim Leverett/American Red Cross.
35516 September 22, 2005. Slidell, Louisiana. Letitia Rollins stands at the back door of her house on Shady Lane in Slidell, Louisiana. Tarps cover torn-apart areas of her roof, while tin from the roof has been attached to the door to secure the home. Rollins lives with her husband, Bernard, mother-in-law Ruby and two daughters, 5 and 15 years. In her kitchen, Rollins has stacks of MREs and bottled water, donations she has accepted from the Red Cross. “I can still help out,” Rollins says, and for days pitched in to help at the Red Cross/Salvation Army distribution center, where residents were given desperately needed food and water. “I can’t cry. I’m not in this alone,” she says. “In the process of helping others, someone will help me.” Photo: Marty Robey/American Red Cross	35531 September 21, 2005. Biloxi, Miss. American Red Cross Mental Health Services volunteer Jorge Arauz from Philadelphia, Pa., offers some relief supplies as he listens to Loretta, whose home was badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Photo: Tim Leverett/American Red Cross
35536 September 21, 2005. Biloxi, Miss., resident Qui Kinard exemplifies the survivor experience of Hurricane Katrina. She held out in her home until the rising water level reached the ceiling of the one-story structure, at which point “…I decided to swim for it!” she says. “I swam for the raft out in front…,” which turned out to be three other survivors clinging to a piece of debris that was floating by the front of her home. She says she clung to the raft for about 4 hours before the water receded. She has been receiving household supplies and visits from the American Red Cross since the storm. Photo: Tim Leverett/American Red Cross	35545 September 15, 2005. Houston, TX. The St. Agnes service center in Houston, run by the American Red Cross, has been distributing financial assistance to Louisiana evacuees since September 15. Photographer: Michael Seamans/ American Red Cross
35547 October 2, 2005. New Orleans. Residents of six selected areas in New Orleans were allowed back into the city on October 1, 2005 for the first time since Hurricane Katrina to see their homes, or what was left of them. For many the cleanup and rebuilding will be long and hard. The Red Cross opened distribution sites in the six areas on Sunday, October 2, to provide supplies, food and water to the returning residents. Here, volunteers unload load cleanup kits and supplies. Photo: Thomas Jacobson, American Red Cross