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| Lt.
Phil Eastman |
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| Commander
Mark Moran |
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Lt.
Dave Demers |
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Commander
Mark Moran, of the NOAA Aviation Weather Center, and Lt. Phil
Eastman and Lt. Dave Demers, of the NOAA Aircraft Operations
Center, all commissioned officers of the NOAA Corps, flew
more than
100 hours surveying Katrina’s devastation. Eastman piloted
NOAA’s Bell 212 Twin Huey Helicopter from August 31
to September 19. All three men took dozens of aerial photos
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captions are left to right. Photo file names include City
and State.)
Biloxi, Miss., structural damage following Hurricane
Katrina; Bay St. Louis, Miss., coastal damage.
Click the camera icon to see footage taken by the NOAA helicopter
pilots flying over the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina
struck the region. 
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Structural
damage in Bay St. Louis; Oil slick in Bay St. Louis; Damage
to Our Lady Church in Bay St. Louis; Pollution in Bay St.
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Hurricane
Katrina aftermath in Biloxi, Miss. |
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Biloxi,
Miss., damage from Hurricane Katrina. |
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Hurricane
Katrina left a trail of destruction in Biloxi, Miss., where
large and heavy rolls of news print and tractor trailers
were tossed around. |
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In
Biloxi, Miss., a casino boat was pushed onshore by Hurricane
Katrina. |
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