Two LSU student volunteers comfort an evacuee from New Orleans as she waits to board a bus outside the PMAC on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.

Volunteer medics transfer a New Orleans evacuee from a naval helicopter into the triage center at the PMAC late Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.

Light covers and trash litter the standing water on Canal Street in New Orleans.

Dr. Ron Coe questions an elderly evacuee in the PMAC on Aug. 31, 2005.

Emergency workers towing a boat get directions at the corner of Bourbon and Canal streets on Sept. 4, 2005.

Caution tape was wrapped around the pumps at this Exxon off Highland.

Thousands of Katrina victims have sought shelter at the Baton Rouge River Center. The shelter is part of the Red Cross disaster relief effort.

Junior running back Justin Vincent helps unload blankets and toys from a trailer at St. James Episcopal Church in Baton Rouge on Sept. 5, 2005.

Rescue workers bring an airlifted evacuee into the PMAC for immediate medical attention Sept. 2, 2005.

Student volunteers play with the child of an evacuee in the PMAC on Sept. 3, 2005.

A construction crew works to plug the more than 500 foot-wide hole in the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans.

Soldiers from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division march down Canal Street at sundown on Sept. 4, 2005.

Although reports of looting were rampant in the days following Hurricane Katrina, one Uptown show owner sent a more direct message in an attempt to deter break-ins.

New Orleans residents sit outside a boarded-up Copeland’s Restaurant on the corner of Napoleon and St. Charles on Sept. 4, 2005.

A home in the Southdowns neighborhood is demolished by a fallen tree during Hurricane Katrina.

Trucks and cars toting parents of LSU students and their possessions line Burbank Drive just blocks away from campus.

At a standstill, traffic continues to accumulate September 15, 2005, on Perkins Road during the height of rush hour.

Andy Moran, a 2004 Tulane communications graduate, reflects on the events that have brought him from the Lakeview subdivision in New Orleans to the Sigma Chi House at LSU.

Flood waters remain on the streets of New Orleans a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Crescent City.

Michelle Paniagua, Business administration senior from UNO, waits in line Tuesday afternoon in hopes of gain admittance to LSU for the Fall semester.

Chancellor Sean O’Keefe addresses a crowd of nearly 700 concerned students, faculty, staff and recent evacuees about the challenges LSU will face this fall semester.

Katrina relief workers converted Rec Center racquetball courts into bedrooms.