Damage In New Orleans

MeanGreen61 · August 31, 2005

Lafayette Advertiser photo gallery of damage in New Orleans.

Photo Gallery

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Green92 · August 31, 2005

Thanks 61, those pictures are very sobering.

LadyGreen · August 31, 2005

wow thanks for sharing. Still praying for the people down there and surrounding cities that have been hit by this

MeanGreenNation · August 31, 2005

http://www.dallasnews.com/photography (worth signing up, very worth it)

Images from NY Times Photgrapher Vincen Laforet http://www.sportsshooter.com/laforet/katrina/ (also on the NY times web site with a few others that are not in this gallery)

MeanGreen61 · August 31, 2005

Side comment. A tenants family from the NO area went to Houston to escape Katrina. They had to pay nearly $200.00 a day for a hotel room. They left Houston and arrived in Corpus Christi last night. If hotels are raising their prices.....pox on them

shaneb · August 31, 2005

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.d...?Category=PHOTO

More images

untbowler · August 31, 2005

Scary thing is this could have been much worse had Katrina not hit a dry air patch and lost a little force as well as making a jog to the East.

The photos coming out of MS and AL look like a bomb went off.

Arkstfan · August 31, 2005

Scary thing is this could have been much worse had Katrina not hit a dry air patch and lost a little force as well as making a jog to the East.
The photos coming out of MS and AL look like a bomb went off.
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50 miles further west and the brunt of the storm surge would have hit New Orleans rather than Biloxi/Gulfport and been eveb worse.

CMJ · August 31, 2005

Honestly, I think this may be worse. MS would mostly have been spared and New Orleans woulda had a quick death. It 's the difference from a shot to the heart and bleeding to death for NO. Which is really more traumatic?

untbowler · August 31, 2005

MS even if the storm had made a direct hit on NO or just to the West, would have been crushed still, in a hurricane that NE quadrant is the most dangerous, next to the eye wall due to the storm surge.

NO might have been in better shape except they have Lake Ponchitrain bordering them and then had the strong winds blowing in from the North.

Imagine if Lake Okeechobee was due North of Miami as a border and a hurricane went past Miami about 50 miles and you would have same effect.

CMJ · August 31, 2005

MS even if the storm had made a direct hit on NO or just to the West, would have been crushed still, in a hurricane that NE quadrant is the most dangerous, next to the eye wall due to the storm surge.

I'm aware of that. But I'm not sure the entire MS would've been as devestated. She was a big storm, but Gulport to NO is about 80 miles west. They would've been more on the outer fringes of the hurricane winds(which were about 105 miles from the eye). So more like 100mph winds and 12ft storm surge instead of 145 and 25ft.

Edited August 31, 2005 by CMJ

MootPoint · August 31, 2005

CNN just reported that the Mayor of New Orleans said "hundreds, maybe thousands" dead and a number of other sources say that number is too low. . . .

UNTFan23 · August 31, 2005

50 miles further west and the brunt of the storm surge would have hit New Orleans rather than Biloxi/Gulfport and been eveb worse.
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At this point, I don't think the situation could be any worse. After the levees failed and flooded the city, I think you saw what might have happened had the hurricane hit the city head-on.

Arkstfan · August 31, 2005

At this point, I don't think the situation could be any worse. After the levees failed and flooded the city, I think you saw what might have happened had the hurricane hit the city head-on.
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The main difference has been that most of the flooding took place after the storm passed and happened at a relatively slow rate. If it had been head-on, a lot of those folks rescued could not have been reached and the water would have come in much faster with more force. It was bad enough as it was.