I'm Disturbed About Katrina

Folks - this is a lot worse than you think it is. It is 7:30 MDT as I write this, and I want to emphasize for everyone reading this around the world that there are no aerial or ground photos available yet from a 40 mile wide swath where the eye of the storm passed.

Nothing from Waveland. Nothing from Slidell. Nothing from Bay St. Louis. Nothing from Chalmette. Nothing from Pass Christian. Nothing from Buras and the West Bank of New Orleans. Very little from Gulfport.

This is very much like Andrew in 1992. No one knew what happened in Homestead for several days after the storm because they couldn't even get close.

Almost all the shots we've seen so far are from New Orleans west of the Industrial Canal, and from Biloxi. These places are no less than 10 miles from the edge of where the eye passed, and the eye was 30 miles wide.

Comments

[Alan]

News, please, about Waveland & Bay St. Louis as soon as you hear anything. I grew up there, suviving both Betsy and Camille.

Alan

[dwayne doucet]

need information about venice la. about damage from katrina have friends and family there

[Linda Smart]

We have a home in Waveland down on Bayou caddy. Has anyone got any word on the Clernomt Harbor and Lakeshore area.

[Holly Centanni]

I'm also eager to hear any news for the Bay St. Louis/Waveland area that's been home for me until two weeks ago. But my parents and many friends still live there. I'm eager to hear anything or see any satellite photos of the damage. There seemed to a shorter response time for those updates following the tsunami than there has been following Katrina.

[Dave Tufte]

It's a few days later now, and we've seen what happened in that area, and it isn't pretty from Waveland, and I still have not seen anything from Plaquemines except satellite photos.

I think the slow response is that many people figured this is just another big hurricane. Ho hum. It wasn't.