Google now has some updated satellite and/or aerial imagery for New Orleans. You can easily see the flooding by looking at the entrance and exit ramps to most of the freeways. Some of them have a line of cars sitting just up out of the water. If you click back and forth between the “Satellite” button and the red “Katrina” button, the difference is quite shocking.
- Breached canal near N. Claiborne ave.
- 17th Street Canal at the Old Hammond Highway Bridge – compare flooding on right to dry land on the left
- Superdome
- French Quarter
- Convention Center
- Gentilly
- Pumping water back into Lake Pontchartrain
- Fair Grounds – Racetrack
- University of New Orleans
Unfortunately, Tulane is one of the areas not covered by this set of photographs.
Hi Robert
It is interesting to note that as soon as Bush, when he declared that Miss. and LA were disaster areas (which was Monday morning, long before the levees broke), corrdinating and controlling rescue and relief efforts become the responsibility of the federal government:
(from the Stafford Act:)
Sec. 302. (a) Immediately upon his declaration of a major disaster or emergency, the President shall appoint a Federal coordinating officer to operate in the affected area.
(b) In order to effectuate the purposes of this Act, the Federal coordinating officer, within the affected area, shall
(1) make an initial appraisal of the types of relief most urgently needed;
(2) establish such field offices as he deems necessary and as are authorized by the President;
(3) coordinate the administration of relief, including activities of the State and local government, the American National Red Cross, the Salvation Army, the Mennonite Disaster Service, and other relief or disaster assistance organizations, which agree to operate under his advice or direction, except that nothing contained in this Act shall limit or in any way affect the responsibilities of the American National Red Cross under the Act of January 5, 1905, as amended (33 Stat. 599); and
(4) take such other action, consistent with authority delegated to him by the President, and consistent with the provisions of this Act, as he may deem necessary to assist local citizens and public officials in promptly obtaining assistance to which they are entitled.