Katie Tharrity (C) and Andreas Stewart- Finkenstaedt (R), playing the role of evacuees, are checked into a processing center at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center during a hurricane evacuation drill in New Orleans May 23, 2006. Top emergency and political officials tested New Orleans' new evacuation plan by reacting to a mock hurricane in efforts to prevent a repeat of the chaos and death that followed Hurricane Katrina. REUTERS/Lee Celano