31 Aerial Photos of the flooding in New Orleans from WWLTV

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.wwltv.com/sharedcontent/breakingnews/slideshow/083005_dmnkatrina/1.html



New Orleans floods
Aerial photos from New Orleans show the effects of flooding after two levees were breached Tuesday.
An aerial view from the east shows floodwaters covering roadways and swallowing up buildings.
SMILEY N. POOL/DMN

[flpoljunkie]

1. Aerial photo of the Superdome taken yesterday before 17th St. levee broke.

The damaged Louisiana Superdome and downtown New Orleans is shown engulfed by floodwaters Tuesday.

[renate]

2. those are the most staggering pictures I've seen yet

Somehow the close-up, on-the-street photos, as unbelievable as they are, don't compare with these aerial ones.

There's just no way to even try to take these pictures in.

[meganmonkey]

13. I know what you mean about the aerial pics

It's like my brain can't even understand what I am looking at - it won't even register it as reality.

It's horrifying.

[dweller]

3. thanks for the link

nom'd.


dp

[xxqqqzme]

4. nominated...everyone should see these

these pictures are stunning. Those yellow school busses lined up in the muddy water...the houses up to their rain gutters....I can't even imagine....

[flpoljunkie]

5. Thanks.

[Bison William]

6. I wanna bitch about the those insensitive idiots at ESPN

I was running through the Chanel's this morning and I stopped to look at some of the damage pictures from New Orleans. I didn't know it was ESPN but all they were talking about was what a big ordeal it was going to be for the New Orleans Saints football team.

I wanted to fucking scream. I can't believe it. There are hundreds of thousands of people displaced and they are worried about some pampered footballer being put out a bit.. Sad! Just Sad.

[hnsez]

8. go ahead, rant

[yowzayowzayowza]

7. This one makes me really sick:

[Tesla]

9. This one is scary.....

[Stinky The Clown]

10. A bold leader would have commandeered those to evacuate the people

Hear that, Georgie?

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. I was discussing the evacuation with my almost 9 year old son

this morning. He wanted to know why there were still people in New Orleans to rescue. I told him that some people will never leave no matter what you tell them, but some people can't leave. He said, "Just go to a hotel." I asked him how they were supposed to pay for it if they had no money and how they were supposed to get to it if they had no car. His face fell and I could tell he understood. Then he brightened up and said, "School buses! They could bus everybody out before the hurricane."

From the mouths of babes.

[yowzayowzayowza]

15. As much as I'd like to...

I don't think this one can be blamed on Georgie; failing to follow thru on Clinton disaster mitigation, yea, but school busses are tasked locally.

[BQueen]

16. all assets: local, state, fed, are considered at disposal

of Emergency Management (didn't you see "Volcano"? ;-))
they can commandeer *private* stuff, sure they can take school stuff.

That said, it's sad that no one local thought of it, cuz leadership at the federal level is sorely lacking.

Can you imagine how many would have gotten out BEFORE Katrina hit if they sent buses to the poorer neighborhoods? (and might have gotten the attention of the holdouts.)

[yowzayowzayowza]

19. Since the disaster...

... was declared in ADVANCE, yer prolly rite.

As fer "Volcano" ... I don't count on realistic renderings from Hollywood. ;)

[theplutsnw]

14. I can not believe

that they did not AT LEAST move all of the buses and city vehicles out to HIGH ground so they could be used to help with rescue and clean up. If they were that afraid of the slightest possibility of flooding they should have moved them out. Such a gross amount of junk left behind, makes me sick. Not to mention the people that stayed behind that could have been evacuated on those buses.

[Jose Diablo]

12. I look at this image and wonder, can malaria and typhoid be far behind n/t

[Wilms]

17. Every Picture Tells a Story (Don't it?) n/t

[RightSightBrightLite]

18. scholarly analysis of levee break using google Earth

found using technorati and other blog specific search engines

just teeny bit of what i found in half a day

citizen media and citizen journalists need to Keep It Real

personal stories from the victims and reports from local bloggers on the ground are indispensable to finding out the depth of this tragedy and what is in reality going on.

this is just one of 15 or so unofficial dispatches from average folks, doing their duty...

New Orleans Levee Break(s) Before and After

I'm probably violating all kinds of copyrights here, but since I haven't seen it elsewhere, here is that levee in New Orleans before and after the break (or at least a levee before & after). Note that the expanse of water in the after picture was formerly (or perhaps currently) occupied by houses.

The first picture comes via Matthew Harris's Flickr account, extracted from Google Earth.

@@@@@@ http://www.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/2005/08/new_orleans_lev.html

Here's an AP photo of the state of the bridge. The car is the same one as in the CNN video. Watching the CNN video a couple of times, it looks like something is flopped over the steering wheel, though you can't see into the car from this angle. (Follow the link for a crisper image.
This is from the Times Picayune, where I finally did get their slide-shows to work.





An Afterthought: we blog-folk are doing this by the seat of our pants and actually getting somewhere. But as Xeni Jardin asks, "media evacuates, there is no grid, damage map?" Why do you see this attempt here and not on the CNN or MSNBC site?

http://www.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/2005/08/new_orleans_lev.html