New Orleans Area Feeling Hurricane Rita's Effect, September 23

82nd Airborne Major Gen. Bill Caldwell, left, and Command Sgt. Major Wolf Amacker talk about the new flooding from the Claiborne Avenue bridge as Hurricane Rita adds to the destruction after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. PHOTO BY ALEX BRANDON

Water from the Industrial Canal pours over one side of a train track, right, in Gentily, and toward the other rail, left, which is sunken and closer toward the city of New Orleans as Hurricane Rita comes closer to southeast Louisiana Friday. PHOTO BY CHRIS GRANGER

Water from Bayou Bienvenue swamps a car parked alongside Paris Road in Chalmette as Hurricane Rita brings in a storm surge late Friday. PHOTO BY CHRIS GRANGER

Paris Road in Chalmette may be impassable again as a St. Bernard Sheriff's deputy drives on the medianlate Friday. Storm surge and debris, right, quickly make its westward toward the city of New Orleans as Hurricane Rita hits southwest Louisiana. PHOTO BY CHRIS GRANGER

A thin cement wall, left center, tries to keep water away from businesses and homes, left, near the Industrial Canal area of Gentily as Hurricane Rita begins to hit southwest Louisiana. PHOTO BY CHRIS GRANGER

A storm surge again covers Paris Road in Chalmette where a car was parked near Bayou Bienvenue as Hurricane Rita starts hitting southwest Louisiana. PHOTO BY CHRIS GRANGER

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