Current Hurricane Katrina Information & Images

I heard Kenner is pretty damn bad too.

 

Yes Lakeview is completely submerged except for rooftops. I levee had to have given way for that much water to be there.

 

Gretna

 

Ray Nagin has reported that the Twin Spans are "totally destroyed" and that 80% of the city is underwater.

This is absolutely horrible. :dis:

 

I fear the death toll will be bad in the New Orleans. It could take some time before we really have a handle on how many.

And those poor people in Mississippi. 30 died in an apartment complex in Biloxi. 55 total so far in Miss.

Truly sad...

 

Mayor Nagin confirmed reports that a two-block-long part of a levee has given way to Lake Pontchartrain at the city's 17th Street Canal -- near the city's center.

Reports are that parts of the city like the French Quarter which missed flooding yesterday is now beginning to take on water.

 

From the Times Pic newsblog....


Levee breach floods Lakeview, Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park

By Doug MacCash
and James O’Byrne
Staff writers

A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new ‘hurricane proof’ Old Hammond Highway bridge, gave way late Monday morning in Bucktown after Katrina’s fiercest winds were well north. The breach sent a churning sea of water coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east.

As night fell on a devastated region, the water was still rising in the city, and nobody was willing to predict when it would stop. After the destruction already apparent in the wake of Katrina, the American Red Cross was mobilizing for what regional officials were calling the largest recovery operation in the organization’s history.

Police, firefighters and private citizens, hampered by a lack of even rudimentary communication capabilities, continued a desperate and impromptu boat-borne rescue operation across Lakeview well after dark. Coast Guard choppers with search lights criss-crossed the skies.

Officers working on the scene said virtually every home and business between the 17th Street Canal and the Marconi Canal, and between Robert E. Lee Boulevard and City Park Avenue, had water in it. Nobody had confirmed any fatalities as a result of the levee breach, but they conceded that hundreds of homes had not been checked.



For more.....

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html#074994

 

According to MSNBC, 80% of the city is now underwater and the previously unaffected areas such as the CBD and FQ are taking on water at a rate of about 1 foot per hour. Heartbreaking. Love and Prayers to all back home.

 

I just read the entire article I posted. My house is less than 1/2 a block from Hines, and one block south of the Harrison St. business dist. Not good news, but I am safe and dry in Oklahoma. I think I will not bitch about my air conditioner that went out yesterday.


On the lakefront, pleasure boats were stacked on top of each other like cordwood in the municipal marina and yacht harbor. The Robert E. Lee shopping center was under 7 feet of water. Plantation Coffeehouse on Canal Boulevard was the same. Hines Elementary School had 8 feet of water inside.

Indeed, the entire business district along Harrison Avenue had water to the rooflines in many places.

 

my wife is a dr at br general which is a emergency center for patients that are being transported from charity and tulane and she told me from what the drs are saying in the NOLA area is that the death toll could reach 1000-2000. I am crying my eyes out for our brothers and sisters of New Orleans. My wife and I are adopting familes from New Orleans. I plead to people in Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake charles and areas throughout LA to help these families. Their lives are a living hell and at least we can do is to give a helping hand.