Hurricane picture: Man carries baby through flood waters

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A man carries a baby through flood waters, as the woman behind him abandons their car, in the Terme area of New Orleans, which lies under several feet of water after Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina ripped into the US Gulf Coast, battering the historic jazz city New Orleans, swamping resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater and stranding people on rooftops.