I love this blog. I've been lurking for months, but now I just have
to get in there. I lived in New Orleans for 13 years, my dearest
friends are still there, and all I can think is, "It's the best
city in the whole country. They'll get through this. I know they
will. I don't know about the rest of us though."
Couple of things: the Times Picayune's Breaking News site
has been going strong throughout, and has consistently been a good
and up to date source of info. (It looked from one of the comments
as if they were down, but that's not the case, as far as I know.)
Another link I haven't seen mentioned anywhere near often enough is
NOAA's digital imagery
of New Orleans. It seems both more complete and easier to get
at than Digital Globe's. (Click on the little "index map" to get to
the area you want. Clicking on the aerial view itself will enlarge
it to the point where you can see road signs. Makes it easy to see
if your particular street is flooded, unless there are clouds in
the way.)
Another thing I haven't seen mentioned enough is this amazing
thing, from the TP Breaking News site a couple of days ago:
[
Bush visit halts food delivery
By Michelle Krupa
Staff writer
Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to refugees in St.
Bernard Parish and on Algiers Point sat on the Crescent City
Connection bridge Friday afternoon as air traffic was halted
because of President Bush’s visit to New Orleans, officials
said.
The provisions, secured by U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon,
D-Napoleonville, and state Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom, baked
in the afternoon sun as Bush surveyed damage across southeast
Louisiana five days after Katrina made landfall as a Category 4
storm, said Melancon’s chief of staff, Casey
O’Shea.
“We had arrangements to airlift food by helicopter to these
folks, and now the food is sitting in trucks because they
won’t let helicopters fly,” O’Shea said Friday
afternoon.
The food was expected to be in the hands of storm survivors after
the president left the devastated region Friday night, he said.
]
I have some more on my blog (acid-test.blogspot.com). The only
thing I haven't seen mentioned much is the curious relationship
between oil and gas royalties and coastal erosion.
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