Surviving Katrina

EMOTIONAL MOMENT: Police Sgt. Becky Benelli is overcome when discussing the number of officers who are staying at her home after their houses were destroyed.  (Gina Ferazzi / LAT)

REAL ESTATE: Eric Etchison of Southgate Towers says all condominiums and apartment vacancies there have been filled.  (Mark Boster / LAT)

EDUCATION: Schools in Baton Rouge, La., are accepting students displaced by the hurricane. Mayor Melvin Holden has asked President Bush for aid for new schools.  (Mark Boster / LAT)

CONSUMER GOODS: Shelves at a Winn Dixie in Baton Rouge are restocked with soda. An inflow of Hurricane Katrina evacuees has doubled the capital city’s population overnight. City officials are worried about how to accommodate all of the new people.  (Mark Boster / LAT)

WRECKAGE: Bobby Underwood consoles his wife, Darlene, after their 7-year-old dog, Dixie, is found dead in the hurricane rubble in Waveland, Miss., a coastal town of 7,000. Virtually no building was left unscathed, an estimated 40 people were killed, and some residents were wondering whether the town is even worth rebuilding.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

THE SEARCH GOES ON: A boat with a rescue team looking for survivors moves along Elysian Fields Avenue in New Orleans.

FOR THE RECORD:
New Orleans street —A photo caption on the front page of Tuesday’s Section A with coverage of Hurricane Katrina said a rescue boat was on Elysian Fields Avenue. The street was near Elysian Fields, but the rescue team was not on that thoroughfare.
  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

MOUTHS TO FEED: Shawn Johnson and his cousins Cameron and Branden Sparkman, with their father, Clintard, at their grandfather’s home in Gulfport, Miss. Hurricane Katrina has driven members of the Sparkman family to huddle under one roof.  (Mark Boster / LAT)

RESCUER: Thomas Sterling, 53, bailing water out of an aluminum skiff, says: “I knew I would survive, so I wanted to stay here and help other people who wouldn’t leave or couldn’t get out.”  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

At the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Baton Rouge, churchgoers sing praise on Sunday, a week after Hurricane Katrina hit neighboring New Orleans. Some 300 people from New Orleans are now staying at the church.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Five-year-old Jakobi Douglas bows his head in prayer at the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, where he and his family are staying. His family is uncertain when they will able to return.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

At the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, deaconess Melondee O’Conner greets one of the hurricane evacuees during the Sunday service.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

A group of friends enjoy a game of cards Sunday in New Orleans’ Mid City neighborhood. They say they plan to stay.  (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Jim Jones and his family are approached by a fire rescue boat squad as they float on Robertson Street. Jones said he is staying home despite ongoing evacuation efforts by federal and state agencies.  (Robert Gauthier / LAT)

Jim Jones, 31, ferries his family along Robertson Street in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Sunday. Jones vows to stay at home despite continued flooding, no running water, electricity and an official evacuation order.  (Robert Gauthier / LAT)

Much of New Orleans, including parts of downtown, remain under several feet of water nearly a week after Hurricane Katrina hit.  (Robert Gauthier / LAT)

Brian Johnson, 32, wades toward his home on Ursulines Avenue near downtown New Orleans, where he plans to stay despite ongoing evacuation efforts.  (Robert Gauthier / LAT)

John Kane, 49, fights back tears as he talks about riding out Hurricane Katrina inside his Lower Garden District home in New Orleans. Kane plans on staying in his house.  (Robert Gauthier / LAT)

Dave Richardson pilots a horse-drawn wagon with a few local revelers through the French Quarter.  (Robert Gauthier / LAT)

Robin Dean, 41, waves to a bus caravan carting evacuees from downtown New Orleans to Washington, D.C.  (Robert Gauthier / LAT)

Marc Leggett sings during a Sunday service in front of the Lighthouse Apostolic Holiness Church in Biloxi, Miss.  (Mark Boster / LAT)

Father Greg Barras conducts Sunday services in front of the parish hall at Our Mother Of Sorrows in Biloxi. The church’s sanctuary was nearly destroyed in the storm.  (Mark Boster / LAT)

At Our Mother Of Sorrows, members of the congregation pass the peace with hugs during the service.  (Mark Boster / LAT)

Denise White of New Orleans stayed with her house and her dog during the hurricane and flooding. The water has receded from most of her neighborhood.  (Gina Ferazzi / LAT)

Urie Steen, 13, will spend a third night sleeping outside on mattress on a dry parking lot with his dad, because their house is teeming with flies and the stench from the flood water in a neighborwood west of downtown New Orleans.  (Gina Ferazzi / LAT)