Updates from a blog
August 29, 2005
Eyes turning toward Mississippi, Alabama
New Orleans' gain is Mississippi's pain.
There's far less reporting, both on TV and the Web, but the strongest, wettest side of Katrina has forcefully struck the Mississippi and Alabama Gulf coasts.
Streets in downtown Biloxi, Miss., and Mobile, Ala. are under 10 feet of water. There's even been some suggestion that this flooding is worse than occurred during last year's
Hurricane Ivan.
No less an authority than my
dear old dad has reported that Alabama's
Gulf Shores beach area, just restored after Ivan, has been completely wiped out.
Southern Mississippi's Sun-Herald has a good
blog going with information on the storm there.
Posted by Eric Berger at
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The Big Easy can begin breathing easy...
Yes, there's going to be devastation.
A number of buildings have flooded, some even collapsed. The white covering atop the Superdome's roof has been pulled off, in rather
dramatic fashion. Some people, almost certainly, have died. The wind has blown windows out of downtown. And as anyone who lived through Tropical Storm Allison here can attest, New Orleans faces a long, slogging clean-up.
But it could have been far, far worse. Had Katrina come in just 30 miles to the west, the below-sea level city would almost certainly have filled up. Thousands dead. Areas of the city flooded for weeks. It's now almost certain that will not happen. The focus of concern has to be Mississippi, and points inland.
Louisiana's damage forecasts are now below
$5 billion, which is about the amount Allison cost Houston.
And if I remember Allison for anything, its
mosquitoes. Yuck.
