August 29th, 2005

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Ain’t Got No Picture Postcards, Ain’t Got No Souvenirs

Things aren’t looking so good in New Orleans. CNN reports “total structural failure” is sections of the city, so that can’t be good news. Doc Searls has a big array of links to Katrina-related stuff, including a bunch of blogs. This Southern Louisiana woman has started one all about the hurricane. Here are Flickr photos tagged ‘hurricane’.

For the non-Canadian readers, the title of this post references a classic song by (arguably) Canada’s favourite rock band.

UPDATE: Via Boing Boing, here’s a great set of images (some static, some animated) showing the hurricane’s progress. This one really demonstrates the massiveness of the weather system.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Here’s a nifty collection of hurricane videos.

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Rayne
August 29th, 2005
4:11 pm

Well someone down there has at least heard the song. I found this title about 4 stories down on Nola.com (A New Orleans News website affiliated with their a newspaper down there).

“New Orleans is sinking . . . I don’t want to swim”
9:34 - Reports of widespread flooding now, although not at the doomsday scenario levels. But we’ve got several hours to go before we’ve seen the worst past. Scanner traffic is busy with calls of rising water, including 18 inches and rising against the levee in the French Quarter. Dispatchers questioning officers on the scene, trying to determine if there is a break in the river levee, or if water is pouring over the top. Independently, NOLA has received a flooding alert for the French Market area.

Fairly heavy street flooding in front and behind the Times-Picayune . . . water appears about knee deep, whipped by the steady wind into whitecaps and breakers. Water is hubcap deep on the furthest vehicles in the employee parking lot, and rising quickly.

http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_nolaview/archives/2005_08.html

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