Katrina's aftermath

Indeed. So can we move on? Ethan said his piece, I said mine, we know where we stand. (xpost with JBR)

once their planes were gone, airlines wouldn't fly in cuz they didn't want to get their planes stuck in the aftermath. i'd imagine amtrak and greyhound did something similar. rental cars were probably all gone. and maybe, just maybe, she didn't have several thousand dollars to hire a limo.

xpost THANK YOU NED

xpost - 3 that wasn't exactly what i was saying, but let's drop it anyway. i just wanna hear about what's happening where several of my relatives live.

Like anything, it depends on the context. Video of desperate people and the obligatory "please Mr & Mrs. Survivor tell us how you feel" live cameras are completely inappropriate. However, I'm completely fascinated by the civic infrastructure and logistical aspects of big natural disasters like this. I'm watching these helicopters shots of NOLA and wondering how the hell the city engineer finds even something to start in on.

Yes, it's a desensitizing attitude toward the very real human catastrophe that's going on but what are you going to do? A small disaster is a tragedy, but something on this scale is a statistic - it's almost impossible to get your head about it.

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3:53 P.M. - N.O. Mayor Nagin: Priorities - 1. Rescuing people. 2. Fixing levee breaks. 3. Taking care of refugees in Superdome and hospitals.

3:43 P.M. - Senator Vitter: New Orleans will "absolutely" be rebuilt.

3:25 P.M. - With conditions in the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans rapidly deteriorating, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday that people now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers need to be evacuated.

"The situation is untenable," Blanco said during a news conference. "It's just heartbreaking."

3:15 P.M. - Charity Hospital is out of commission and they are trying to evacuate patients, but it is hard to get there because rising water is surrounding the hospital. They will try to evacuate the patients to other cities.

god, thats just incredible, that this even has to be a talking point, you know?

Because we are MAN, and because it just wouldn't do to learn our lesson.

I'm thinking about it a lot too. I was in NO back in January and also wandered about though Houma, Grand Isle and everything along LA-1. The one report I read about LA-1 was that it was covered in 4 feet of grass and muck.

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(That said, I would be interested in a historical overview of the city's topographical history -- when the levees were built, etc.)

I'm also sad about Lousiana Music Factory and all those studios with all those masters.

I've been trying to check in with the brass band dudes, it seems like most of them got out or are okay but a lot are unaccounted for. Lil' Stooges are all from the 9th ward, I think.

Especially if the core of the town (xpost whoever built it -- Spanish were probably the first, yeah) was originally on the high ground, as I gather it was (thus the French Quarter etc.). In otherwards, for a small settlement in unstable land but near an obviously important potential river port area, they doubtless chose what was best going to work.

4:21 P.M. - WWL-TV Reporter quotes officials as saying there may now be 60,000 people in the Superdome and that more people are still being urged to go there.

...but they just said they're trying to evacuate it? I assume they're just doing their best to get people to one spot *for* evacuation but still.

(This all said, 3's concept is amusing the hell out of me.)

Jesus, I never even thought about this til now.

Meanwhile here's some stuff from nola.com's blog (this includes a few things I've already posted):

Users report that the area near West Jefferson Hospital is dry, as is the 1700 block of N. Turnbull and St. Edwards near Transcontinental.

Walnut Bend and the Algiers area is reported to be doing well, with clean water and gas service.

There are several reports that the Uptown area remains unflooded, particularly around Magazine and Jefferson and Mag. and Webster; Prytania and Napoleon. Similar reports re the Garden District.

Baronne Street downtown is dry.

Port Street in the Marigny was dry this morning.

Canal Blvd. around Harrison is underwater, but a user posts that the water does NOT seem to be rising at all, regardless of what the nat'l. media reports.

(Am glad that Adam and Rock are OK.)