[b_a88]

Here is some sat pictures of before and after. They were on nasa's website but in a small poor quality animated gif so I took them out of the animated gif and blew them up but they are still poor quality but you can see better this way than what nasa had up.

Before Katrina
<img src='http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4050/beforekat0ku.jpg'/>

After Katrina
<img src='http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/97/afterkat9qu.jpg'/>

[kanaloa]

The storm really did change the Geography of the area... and I wouldn't be totally suprised if the Mississippi tries to change it's route into the ocean now. It's a common occurance with rivers.

[kanaloa]

This is from a local station... shows the damage from above today.

VIEW HERE

[e to the x]

my god, it looks like everything is just gone...

[kanaloa]

The one that makes me the saddest is where the man is talking to the female reporting clutching the hand of his grandchild...

North America Correspondent Leigh Sales reports.

(Sounds of helicopters)

LEIGH SALES: Rescue workers survey the devastation from helicopters, at times plucking desperate survivors from the rooves of their houses.

REPORTER: Absolute devastation - there is water everywhere throughout this area. Again, we are about five miles to the west of New Orleans and this area is completely flooded out. We've got a complete mall that appears to be completely damaged, the front of this Target - completely demolished. Rooftops - gone.

LEIGH SALES: As emergency workers start getting into the worst affected areas, the stories of loss and heartbreak begin.

REPORTER: What happened?

VOX POP: The house just split in half.

REPORTER: Your house split in half?

VOX POP: We got up in the roof, all the way to the roof, and water came and the house just opened up, divided

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[b_a88]

Unbelievable, I can't believe how bad that is. The casino picked up and dropped on the Holiday Inn.

[phileysmiley]

John is correct. It is, in fact, this kind of event which has helped shape the coastline that we see today. Just a few miles from me is an inlet and there are 2 islands on each side. But that was one island until a hurricane created that inlet. Although my degree is in Geology, my specialty was beach topography and for 4 years I studied how are coastlines were created and what occurs there now and will occur in the future. Hurricanes are a necessary part of their evolution.

But here is the new story -- the natural disaster is essentially over, or at least the event is.

What is happening now is a man-made disaster -- the levees breaking around New Orleans. The water rising steadily and turning 80% of New Orleans into a lake is only secondarily related to the hurricane but not a direct cause of it.

Most of what we see now on the news and read about is not damage caused by Katrina. This may turn out to be the real tragedy here -- as we have seen all too many times, man's attempt to harness the forces of Mother Nature are now killing us.

[Cyndessa]

I'm waiting for the 6pm news in atlanta, but I heard a blurb on CNN that gas prices have been seen at $4.99 per gallon. I don't know how accurate that is, but the gas station next to me is out of gas, and another I saw on my way home from school was at 3.55.

But the gas problem is only created by people, I want to knock them all upside the head. What do you think will happen if everyone in atlanta decides to go to the gas station on the same day to fill up!? The gas stations couldn't have handled that last week nor last year, gas line stopped or no.

The only thing that worries me is the effect on Delta. Its going to go belly up because of the natural gas shortage of the colonial line or whatever its called.

[phileysmiley]

Not a photo, but I know I have been confused by the levee locations. Here is a map:



This is turning into a classic. I predict we will see this 100 years from now:

[kanaloa]

I prob shouldn't say this, but it's the talk of the office here this morning... but I can confirm all the lines coming into the SE, including SC are blocked or stopped for gas.

All DOT stuff is shut down until further notice. Since all our funding comes from gasoline, natural this raises several concerns.

But the lines are blocked... people here were buying gas like crazy yesterday. Tasha told me she waited 15 min in line for half a tank of gas.