Water flows out of the breach in the levee in the Industrial Canal into the lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Sept. 23, 2005. The neighborhood had just been pumped dry from flood waters of Hurricane Katrina when tides from Hurricane Rita caused the temporary repairs to fail.
Cars are stranded on a street flooded by rain from hurricane Rita in New Orleans parish, Sept. 23, 2005, in New Orleans.
This image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows an aerial view of the Ninth Ward, after rising waters caused by Hurricane Rita ran over the levee, Sept. 23, 2005, in New Orleans.
Water rises in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Sept. 23. 2005. The repaired levee along the Industrial Canal was breached, allowing water to flow into neighborhoods that were just getting dry from Hurricane Katrina.
Water from the breach in the levee in the Industrial Canal floods the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, Sept. 23, 2005.
The lighthouse on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain, which was heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina, is threatened by the rising tide from the passing Hurricane Rita, Sept. 23, 2005, in the Lakeview district of New Orleans.
Water from the Industrial Canal (foreground) rushes into the Ninth Ward District of New Orleans through a levee breach caused by Hurricane Rita, Sept. 23, 2005.
A child's toy sits in the flood waters of Hurricane Rita in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Sept. 23, 2005.
Flood water covers a deserted Flood Street in New Orleans, Sept. 23, 2005.
A street sign hangs on a pole as water flows by from a breach in the repaired Inner Harbor Canal toward the Ninth Ward District Sept. 23, 2005, in New Orleans.
High water from Hurricane Rita's storm surge flows from the industrial canal over a levee into the lower Ninth Ward Friday, Sept. 23, 2005, in New Orleans. The overflow caused areas that had flooded in Hurricane Katrina and since been drained to flood again.
A car drives through water coming from a breach in the repaired Inner Harbor Canal. The water is flowing toward houses in the Ninth Ward District on Sept. 23, 2005, in New Orleans.
A toilet sits in water coming from a breach in the repaired Inner Harbor Canal as water flows toward houses in the Ninth Ward District on Sept. 23, 2005 in New Orleans. Rain and wind started to hit New Orleans as Hurricane Rita passed through the Gulf of Mexico barely three weeks after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the region.
Water flows through a breach in the repaired Inner Harbor Canal toward the Ninth Ward District on Sept. 23, 2005 in New Orleans. Rain and wind began hitting New Orleans as Hurricane Rita passed through the Gulf of Mexico barely three weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region.
Water flows through a breach in the repaired Inner Harbor Canal toward homes in the Ninth Ward District Sept. 23, 2005 in New Orleans.
A lone dog runs down a flooded North Claiborne Avenue in New Orleanson Sept. 23, 2005. Hurricane Rita pushed water into neighborhoods that had just dried out from the flooding from Hurricane Katrina.
Cars are stranded on a street flooded by the breached levee on the Industrial Canal in the Lower Ninth Ward on Sept. 23, 2005, in New Orleans. Hurricane Rita's rains breached the patched levee, sending water spilling into the hard-hit, but largely empty Ninth Ward just days after the neighborhood had been pumped dry.
A man is seen through glass as he walks across Bourbon Street in the French Quarter on Sept. 23, 2005 in New Orleans, where Hurricane Rita brought wind and lashing rain.
Homes in the Ninth Ward are submerged in floodwaters after a breach emerged in the repaired Inner Harbor Canal ON Sept. 23, 2005, in New Orleans.
Storm clouds from Hurricane Rita are seen over the Louisiana Superdome Sept. 23, 2005, in New Orleans. Just three weeks ago, thousands were stranded at the Superdome after seeking shelter there from Hurricane Katrina.