Icono Clast a =E9crit :
> Inter-active satellite map of New Orleans; street map; map defining
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> The satellite image on the left at the URL below shows New Orleans as
> it meets Lake Pontchartrain after Hurricane Katrina . . . The
> satellite image on the right shows how it was on March 9, 2004:
So if the top of the photo is the north, it seems that the northen part
of the central city between the 2 "main canals" joining the lake and
the river and north east of this as well is floaded but not the old
district (on a gentle hill ?) or the district with the towers and the
superdome just south west of this last part. Nevertheless I can't see
very well if the streets at the south west of the city are black and
thus floaded. On CNN they showed this image saying that they were
preserved as well. Where exactly is the breach in the dyke ? Is it near
the "western canal" whose left side is so clearly dry on the photo.
East of the old distric not far from the river I can see some water
with white foam falling... in the "eastern canal" from several points,
not the contrary...! What is it ? Is it coming from the lake ?
Personnaly since I heard that 80 % of the inhabitants had been
evacuated I was amased to hear on TV that a US polician said that there
could be 1000ds of victims. I feared for disabled people at ground
floor and I don't know if the floading occurred during the night, but I
didn't believe it since IMO a floading coming from a single (?) breach
has probably been progressive except very near the breach. I've been
reassured when I heard that the casualities will be much less numerous.
P=2ES. for Go Fig. As Earl reminded, the 1999 storm in France was
unprecedented since 350 years and I never noticed other satellite meteo
images than european ones on TV, which of course is not the case in the
US or elsewhere.
didier Meurgues
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