New Orleans, LA, Tuesday, August 30, 2005 — Cars parked on the New Orleans streets are flooded to the top of the wheel wells in this ground level photograph.  New Orleans was under a mandatory evacuation order as a result of flooding caused by hurricane

New Orleans, LA, Tuesday, August 30, 2005 — Cars parked on the New Orleans streets are flooded to the top of the wheel wells in this ground level photograph. New Orleans was under a mandatory evacuation order as a result of flooding caused by hurricane

New Orleans, LA, August 30, 2005 — Cars parked on the New Orleans streets are flooded to the top of the wheel wells in this ground level photograph. New Orleans was under a mandatory evacuation order as a result of flooding caused by hurricane Katrina. PHOTO CREDIT: Marty Bahamonde/FEMA

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Baby Kemp’s ridley sea turtles are released and head for the ocean. The most endangered of sea turtle species living in the Gulf of Mexico, Kemp’s ridleys are raised from eggs in a hatchery and then released on the beaches of Padre Island National Seashore in Texas, where they will eventually return to nest. Photo credit: Carlton Ward