Fragile city awaits new onslaught

For 36 hours over the weekend the wild, exuberant, damaged city of New Orleans slowly drained of life and colour as its anxious people weighed the uncertainties of driving north against the sure danger of staying. Nowhere does life in America feel more fragile than here, behind the network of levees protecting one of the few cities near the sea anywhere in the world which lie at least partly below sea-level. BBC Article...
BBC : In Pictures : New Orleans evacuation