Here is a link to a recent satellite image of New Orleans, post-hurricane. You can pan around and zoom in and out. A friend in Baton Rouge, an area in much better shape than surrounding communities, reports that the city of New Orleans has been destroyed, in his words, "just as severely as if it had been nuked". http://hosted.ap.org/specials/interactives/_national/neworleanssatellite/ind... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Horrific damage. On one TV station my daughter saw satellite images of before and after, similar to the ones we saw of the tsunami, if you remember those. Have you seen the "before" images as well, Chuck? Thanks for sending this. I did a quick check on-line but wasn't able to find anything. -A
Try this for an interactive 'before' image: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=new+orleans&spn=0.094667,0.162100&t=k&hl=en --- Ann House <annchouse@gmail.com> wrote:
Horrific damage. On one TV station my daughter saw satellite images of before and after, similar to the ones we saw of the tsunami, if you remember those. Have you seen the "before" images as well, Chuck? Thanks for sending this. I did a quick check on-line but wasn't able to find anything. -A
I forget google has satellite images. The magnitude of the devastation is easily seen from up above. Thanks Chuck and Scott. -A
--- Ann House <annchouse@gmail.com> wrote:
I forget google has satellite images.
See Patrick's news today. Here are three links: http://www.digitalglobe.com/katrina_gallery.html http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/ http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/default.htm
From the TV "news-lite" I'm also having a problem wrapping my head around just how large the area of damage is in N.O.
- Canopus56 P.S. - On Nightline a couple of nights ago, I heard Wynton Marsalis saying that New Orleans resident Fats Dominio was missing. Hope he's found. Fats Dominio is famous for songs like: I'm Walkin' Blueberry Hill Ain't That a Shame and one of his lesser known songs: Walking to New Orleans Amazon music link to preview the above: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005YW4I/qid=1125683572/sr=1... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Fats Domino Found in New Orleans One of rock 'n' roll's chief architects has been rescued from the rubble of New Orleans. Fats Domino, who had been unaccounted for in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, was plucked from the flooded city by a rescue boat. Full article at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20050902/en_music_eo/17283 Scott --- Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
P.S. - On Nightline a couple of nights ago, I heard Wynton Marsalis saying that New Orleans resident Fats Dominio was missing. Hope he's found. Fats Dominio is famous for songs like:
I'm Walkin' Blueberry Hill Ain't That a Shame
and one of his lesser known songs:
Walking to New Orleans
Amazon music link to preview the above:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005YW4I/qid=1125683572/sr=1...
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