katrina

[low_delta]

The focus seems to be on New Orleans, but it seems Mississippi has been hit far worse. It really does remind me of last christmas's tsunami. In aerial views, you can see the foundations of homes scoured clean, and then a wide line of debris, and then intact homes. In some scenes there are homes jumbled together as if the waves picked them up and deposited them there. Did you see the I10 bridge, that had its concrete slabs thrown into the ocean? And there were cars still on it. 80% of Mississippians are without power. Much of Alabama is without power as well. There is damage in Florida and Georgia.

Thousands dead, I imagine.

Comments

[penpusher.livejournal.com]

The unfortunate thing is that people focus on places they've visited. Where a lot of people have been to NOLA, not that many have been to areas of Mississippi and rural Alabama. I dare say that most people wouldn't even know how metropolitan some of those areas were before the storm, so seeing them now doesn't have the impact of seeing the Superdome's roof torn away and the streets of the French Quarter underwater.

The good thing is that people are donating to the cause because of the familiarity, and that money winds up going to relief throughout the region.

Yes, I would guess thousands are gone. The work it's going to take to make that area liveable for anyone will be massive. The sadness continues.

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

I can't believe the pictures I've been seeing. The washed out road is the very same one we've driven over many many times.

[ravenfeather.livejournal.com]

The reason you are seeing more reports from New Orleans is because that is where all the ****ing reporters went. The reason they go to the big populated areas before a storm... and this is my opinion... is because large amounts of death and destruction in a small area makes a more sensational story than even worse destruction over a larger area. The pictures are harder to find...

[sirreal13.livejournal.com]

The original storm track WAS for a direct hit on New Orleans... The slight change in Mother Nature's plans came too late for the major media to relocate.

I heard a helicopter pilot on NPR last night who flew over Pascagoula, MS before and after the storm. He said 80% of the antebellum homes were totally razed. These were houses that survived the Civil War and at least a dozen Cat 3 or 4 hurricanes.

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

mississippi was hit far worse by the hurricane itself, this is true. but the flooding in new orleans is exactly the nightmare that's been right around the corner for many moons. both cities are devastated in different ways.

the power is out in new orleans as well and many more dead will be found.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It's a strange deal in New Orleans. It got through the hurricane itself just fine. It wasn't until well afterwards that the levee broke and people - everyone - started losing houses. But yes, New Orleans does sound like it will be completely destroyed.

You sound a little defensive. I wasn't comparing, only bringing the other devastation to people's attention.

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

oh sweetie, you always think i sound defensive- maybe i do, but i don't mean to. it's just that i don't think it IS a "strange deal" in new orleans.
this is exactly what was expected to happen when too much rain came and it could have happened with any level hurricane if the rain came in ghastly amounts. i agree with you that new orleans is getting more media (or was) and someone in the thread mentioned that the media had been posted there, which i think is the case. i know that mississippi is ailing, i do. and i like that you're putting it out there for those who may have overlooked that fact.