From somebody posting on the NOLA boards:
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O.k., just was able to determine the following from the aerial shots:
Massive flooding in the Lakefront-area, with the water roof deep. Images on WDSU of a Coast Card rescue of someone from a roof-top via Helicopter. Numerous roofs are gone.
The area around Paris Ave. & Robert E. Lee is totally flooded, water up to the rooftops, probably a good 7 feet deep. Also Looks like Gentilly is almost totally under water.
Looks like a good bit of the UNO campus is under water towards the London Avenue Canal. In fact, it looks like the area between Bayour St. John and the London Ave. Canal, from Robert E. Lee to the lake, is totally flooded.
City Park is flooded, almost 3/4 of it now looks like a swamp. The golf course is totally submerged to Marrconi.
The Yacht basin at West End is clogged with sunken boats.. looks like the wind coming from the North on the West side of the storm stacked the boats up in a mass pile, and it looked very much like the Southern Yacht Club is on fire, but on the side facing west end point.
This is hard to comprehend....
I thought it was the one-eyebrowed baby.
No, my nemeses are original and specific, and constitute Farsi, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the Girl Scouts of America.
Poor Girl Scouts. What have they ever done to you?
Poor Girl Scouts. What have they ever done to you?
They thwarted me in my attempt to see the White House. But revenge, like gazpacho, is a dish best served cold, and my day shall come.
wonders if Billytea's revenge recipe is in the buffista cookbook
Trudy, I'm watching too. Do you mean the blueprints tattoo or shooting the bishop?
quester, I meant
the tattoo
wonders if Billytea's revenge recipe is in the buffista cookbook
"First, take the Girl Scouts of America." Unfortunately, at that point I always add 'in a manly way', and I'm too busy giggling to finish the rest of the recipe.
Other parts? Not so good:
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Even as reports of damage continued coming in Monday night, the full extent of the destruction in Katrina's wake was hard to gauge.
But one thing was clear: Gentilly, Treme, Bywater and the 9th Ward had been swallowed.
The exit from I-10 onto to Claiborne Avenue - and then Claiborne itself - was underwater. Ditto the intersection of I-10 and Elysian Fields, where water reached near the roof lines of homes. Homes were also inundated at the I-10 exit at Louisa Street.
St. Claude Avenue, east of the French Quarter and into St. Bernard Parish, was almost undewater.
