Comments on: Katrina, Part Two http://barelyenough.org/blog/2005/08/katrina-part-two/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:34:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Catherine Williams http://barelyenough.org/blog/2005/08/katrina-part-two/#comment-87 Catherine Williams Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:03:33 +0000 http://pezra.barelyenough.org/blog/2005/08/katrina-part-two/#comment-87 <p>The parental units live in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=mobile+alabama&ll=30.692840,-88.148117&spn=0.410043,0.648399&hl=en">Wilmer</a>. (on the far left side of that map).</p> <p>Downntown Mobile flooded as <a href="http://www.al.com/weather/hurricane/katrinaphotos/gallery.ssf?cgi-bin/view_gallery.cgi/bama/view_gallery.ata?g_id=950">Mobile River washed into town</a>. News this morning showed downtown nearly dry, so the water is receeding.</p> <p>New Orleans is flooding because a two block section one of the levees that contains <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=new+orleans&ll=30.091672,-90.138016&spn=0.412574,0.648399&hl=en">Lake Pontchartrain</a> has broken through. I've never been to the Great Lakes but I think Lake Pontchartrain must be of similar scale; you cannot see from one shore to another.</p> <p>But by all accounts, NO was spared. The <a href="http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/">MS gulf coast was hardest hit</a>.</p> The parental units live in Wilmer. (on the far left side of that map).

Downntown Mobile flooded as Mobile River washed into town. News this morning showed downtown nearly dry, so the water is receeding.

New Orleans is flooding because a two block section one of the levees that contains Lake Pontchartrain has broken through. I’ve never been to the Great Lakes but I think Lake Pontchartrain must be of similar scale; you cannot see from one shore to another.

But by all accounts, NO was spared. The MS gulf coast was hardest hit.

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