New York Times coverage of the hurricane aftermath.

The greatest humanitarian crisis in the history of the United States:

Peter Teahen, the national spokesman for the American Red Cross, said: "We are looking now at a disaster above any magnitude that we've seen in the United States. We've been saying that the response is going to be the largest Red Cross response in the history of the organization."

Donate to the Red Cross here.

The images of Katrina's wrath eerily remind me of parts of the 2004 movie The Day After Tomorrow, about sudden climate change brought on by humanity's utter disregard for mama nature.