Ellen Chmiel sits on the steps of her home on Feb. 11, 2013, a day after a tornado touched down in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Hundreds of homes were destroyed and over sixty people injured when the tornado ripped through the town.

Jordon Williams walks through her bedroom on Monday, Feb. 11, a day after a tornado touched down in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Ogletree House lies in ruins on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Miss., Monday, Feb. 11. The building, built in 1912, housed the university alumni association offices.

Aviculturists at the Audubon Species Survival Center in New Orleans, wearing crane costumes, round up four endangered Mississippi sandhill cranes and transport them from their current habitat, to the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge in Gautier, Miss.

Endangered Mississippi sandhill cranes stand in their temporary transitional habitat, to be later released into the wild.

Biologists measure the wing of an endangered Mississippi sandhill crane.

Aviculturist Meg Zuercher takes an endangered Mississippi sandhill crane out of its crate with the help of Scott Hereford, a senior wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, to introduce it to a temporary transitional habitat.

Matthew Pettus holds a sheet open in the wind on the levee near Lake Pontchatrain as Hurricane Isaac approaches in New Orleans, Aug. 28, 2012.

A group of men await Hurricane Isaac in New Orleans, Aug. 28.

Joshua Keegan, 10, left, and Ruffin Henry, 10, play with Scout in a flooded area outside of the levee system along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain as Hurricane Isaac approaches New Orleans, Aug. 28.

Andrew Sessoms sit on a park bench at a flooded beach as Hurricane Isaac approaches the Gulf Coast in Waveland, Miss., Aug. 28.

Passers-by rescue a woman pinned in a burning car on Interstate 10 in Hancock County, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 16.

Passers-by rescue a woman pinned in a burning car on Interstate 10 in Hancock County, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 16.

Passers-by hold a woman after they rescued her from being pinned in a burning car on Interstate 10 in Hancock County, Miss., Thursday, Aug. 16.

Floodwaters from the Yazoo river creep across fields of crops near Yazoo City, Miss., on Thursday. The water is expected to crest on Thursday, May 19. For thousands of people forced from their homes by the rising Mississippi River, life has become a tedious waiting game: waiting for meals at shelters, waiting for the latest word on their flooded homes, waiting for the river to fall.

Homes are surrounded by floodwaters from the Mississippi River in Vicksburg, Miss., on Thursday.

Farmers work as floodwaters from the Mississippi river creep across their fields in Natchez, Miss., Tuesday, May 17. The Coast Guard said it closed the Mississippi River at the port in Natchez, Miss., on Tuesday because barge traffic could increase pressure on the levees. Heavy flooding from Mississippi tributaries has displaced more than 4,000 in the state, about half of them upstream from Natchez in the Vicksburg area.

Floodwaters from the Mississippi River creep inland across a field of soybeans in Natchez, Miss., Tuesday, May 17. The Coast Guard said it closed the Mississippi River at the port in Natchez, Miss., on Tuesday because barge traffic could increase pressure on the levees. Heavy flooding from Mississippi tributaries has displaced more than 4,000 in the state, about half of them upstream from Natchez in the Vicksburg area.