Katrina then and now

Ted Jackson attempts to replicate the exact height and angle of a photograph he shot nine years ago on the first day of Hurricane Katrina from a rescue boat. To find the accurate vantage point, he shot from the top steps of a 12-foot ladder to replicate the depth of the water. Photographed Monday, July 28, 2014. (Photo by Andrew Boyd, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

Staff Photo by ©TED JACKSON, Palm trees bend and banners rip on Canal St. as Hurricane Katrina blows through New Orleans on Monday morning, August 29, 2005.

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON Canal St. with streetcars, 2014. Scenes of Katrina, 9 years later, photographed July and August 2014. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune )

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON A family of women and children cling to posts on their front porch as rising flood waters force them to evacuate their home on St. Claude Ave in the Lower 9th Ward. They had tried to get into their attic space to no avail. Flood waters raging down St. Claude prevented rescuers from reaching them during the storm. They were planning to swim to safety using the log in the lower right of photo, as spectators pleaded with them to stay where they were until help could arrive. They said they had been clinging to the posts since 8 am. It was now after noon. Hurricane Katrina. August 29, 2005

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON Front porch at St. Claude Ave. at Industrial Canal, photographed from bridge, 2014. Scenes of Katrina, 9 years later, photographed July and August 2014. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON A woman swims down St. Claude, trying to keep in good spirits, saying she was “swimming to New Orleans” after flood waters inundated the region after Hurricane Katrina. August 29, 2005

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON Location along St. Claude Ave. photographed from a 12-foot ladder, near Orleans / St. Bernard Parish line, 2014. Scenes of Katrina, 9 years later, photographed July and August 2014. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

STAFF PHOTO BY JOHN MCCUSKER The hurricane has passed and the flooding has begun Monday afternoon as three men – John Rainey, John Rainey, Jr. and Courtney Davis – help Terry Fox tug a tub full of children toward an overpass on South Broad Street, August 29, 2005

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON S. Broad Street, 2014. Scenes of Katrina, 9 years later, photographed July and August 2014. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON A man with his baby cries out over the body of an elderly man who died in a lawn chair where on the neutral ground of Convention Boulevard as refugees crowd into the Earnest Memorial Convention Center with no officials, food, water, or other essentials. They were hoping for buses to come and evacuate them from the city. Hurricane Katrina. MY THOUGHTS New Orleans is a place of beguiling charm, stealing your heart with vivid images of beautiful oaks, stately mansions, and quaint streetcars. But now, who will soon forget the scenes of bodies lying in the medians of grand boulevards. this is another trauma we New Orleanians now live with. Thursday, Sept 1, 2005

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON Earnest Morial Convention Center, 2014 Scenes of Katrina, 9 years later, photographed July and August 2014. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

STAFF PHOTO BY ELIOT KAMENITZ As helicopters rush off with the most desperately ill, throngs trapped for nearly a week in New Orleans climb aboard busses at the intersection of I-10 and Causeway Blvd., Saturday, September, 3, 2005, five days after Katrina made landfall.

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON Intersection of Causeway Blvd. and I-10, 2014 Scenes of Katrina, 9 years later, photographed July and August 2014. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

STAFF PHOTO BY ALEX BRANDON A blackhawk helicopter rescues people in the B.W. Cooper project as a man goes back to his apartment following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005.

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON B.W. Cooper Housing development, now empty and in redevelopment, 2014. Scenes of Katrina, 9 years later, photographed July and August 2014. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

STAFF PHOTO BY JOHN MCCUSKER. A security worker walks past destroyed houses in Lakeview near the break in the 17th street canal. The two sides of the 17th street canal: Bucktown vs. Lakeview. Shot Thursday September 22, 2005.

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON Neighborhood rebuilt after breach in 17th St. Canal, 2014. Scenes of Katrina, 9 years later, photographed July, 2014. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

STAFF PHOTO BY ELLIS LUCIA General scenes of destruction at the site of the levee breach in the Lower Ninth Ward, Thursday, September 15, 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON Lower 9th Ward, at the breach of the Industrial Canal, 2014. Scenes of Katrina, 9 years later, photographed July and August 2014. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

STAFF PHOTO BY SCOTT THRELKELD The concrete fishing pier is in ruin at Fontainebleau State Park in Mandeville, photographed Friday, December 9, 2005, heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON Fountainebleau State Park, Mandeville, La. 2014. Scenes of Katrina, 9 years later, photographed July and August 2014. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON A truck, a mustang, and a row of houses lie buried beneath feet of silt from the breach at the London Avenue Canal. Hurricane Katrina. Sept. 21, 2005

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON Houses in the breach of the London St. Canal, 2014. Scenes of Katrina, 9 years later, photographed July and August 2014. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)

STAFF PHOTO BY JENNIFER ZDON A woman walks by a growing pile of debris being dumped at the sanctioned Katrina dump site on the neutral ground between West End Blvd. and Pontchartrain Blvd. Thursday, October 10, 2005.

STAFF PHOTO BY TED JACKSON West End Blvd. 2014. Scenes of Katrina, 9 years later, photographed July and August 2014. (Photo by Ted Jackson, Nola.com | The Times-Picayune)