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More than a million people were without power across Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, water supplies were compromised and collapsed communications left large areas cut off from the outside world.

HUNDREDS were feared dead last night, tens of thousands were homeless and flood waters submerged most of New Orleans after much of the US Gulf Coast was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, predicted to become the costliest storm to have hit the US. (File photo/ Xinhua/REUTERS)

The American Red Cross said that it was starting the largest relief operation in its history, as across the Gulf Coast, hit by Katrina and its 150mph winds on Monday morning, people clung to rooftops, while thousands of trees lay uprooted and cars and sailboats sat crumpled, having been tossed about like toys.

(File photo: Xinhua/REUTERS)

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