In 2005, the city's Louisiana Superdome housed thousands of New Orleanians who couldn't, or didn't, heed the mandatory evacuation order.

CNN: Mandatory evacuations to begin Sunday morning in New Orleans

The family, including Shenae's sisters -- Sheniya, 4, and Shemiya, 2, -- eventually wound up in the Louisiana Superdome, where one of Thomas' sisters found them.

CNN: 'I knew it was over with'

Outside the Louisiana Superdome, where as many as 30, 000 people sought shelter, refugees waiting for a bus out of town completely covered an outside plaza, where they waited in the heat and rain.

CNN: Military due to move in to New Orleans

While the WWE must wait another year (precisely until April 6, 2014) for the next iteration of Wrestlemania (to be held at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana), it does not have to wait nearly as long to find cause for additional celebration.

FORBES: WWE Scoring Big Numbers In And Outside Of The Wrestlemania Ring

The president spent 35 minutes looking out the window as the aircraft passed over Louisiana and Mississippi and saw the damaged roof of the New Orleans Superdome and the city's flooded neighborhoods.

CNN: Bush tells victims: 'A lot of help coming'