Katrina slams US Gulf Coast, oil rigs adrift
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-08-30 07:53

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite image of Hurricane Katrina taken as the storm continued to move farther inland after it came ashore along the U.S. Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. [Reuters]

A view of a parking lot that has fallen into the ocean at the beach after hurricane Katrina struck in Destin, Florida August 29,2005. Hurricane Katrina ripped into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Monday, battering the historic jazz city New Orleans, swamping resort towns and lowlands with a crushing surge of seawater and stranding people on rooftops. [Reuters]

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