A small dog on the porch and a more aggressive pit bull protect the neighborhood.

The stranded animals have to fend for themselves in the abandoned neighborhoods. Solders have seen horses swimming around and we came across two ostridges wandering in the night. (They scattered before I could get a photo.)

This guy looks to be in rough shape, but I didn't want to get too close.

City buses, left where they stopped, have been vandalized and burned.

A looted convience store in Faubourg Marigny.

A backstreet, flooded.

Soldiers examine a grounded boat.

Two trashed New Orleans police cruisers outside Bywater Hospital.

Wind damage in Gretna.

Yet another stranded boat in the downtown.

Police and soldiers go house to house, marking the date it was cleared.

Preemptive graffiti.

A National Guard outpost at St. Claude and Poland, near the drawbridge.

Soldiers patrol an American landscape.

"Help" painted on a grocery store.

In neighborhoods that weren't flooded,like the Garden District, there's still plenty of damage, and fire potential.

A man sits outside a closed church entrance.

These photos were taken between September 5th and September 9th in and around New Orleans. All rights are reserved by the photographer and use without permission is prohibited. (Linking in is OK as long as my bandwidth holds out.) Most were taken by me, but there are several, where noted, taken by Tim Connolly.