Awesome Katrina

Here are some pictures I took while visiting Louisiana just two weeks ago. If you hadn't already guessed, this is hurricane Katrina just as it came within sight of land. I think most of them (these are my best pictures) are also just before it hit New Orleans. Pictures like this make you realise the extent of the storm and why the damage was so severe. Nature can be very beautiful but also very angry, this is it at its most angry.
Also, I thought as a side note we have really outused the word "awesome". Awesome can describe as little as going shopping for chewing gum these days, so when pictures like this come your way awesome just doesn't quite cut it as an adequate adjective anymore.