Bird's Eye View of Destruction

September 3, 2005 8:02 PM

Post-Katrina satellite images are now available on Google Maps. Click 'satellite' to see the before. Here's Superdome. Here's Highway 610 disappearing into the water, abandoned cars littering it. via Google Sightseeing.
posted by Kattullus (15 comments total)

Argh! My mother's house is STILL a blurry splotch. Satellites suck.
posted by brundlefly at 8:12 PM on September 3, 2005

Actually, this is aerial photos. Satellites would suck even more.
posted by nmiell at 8:24 PM on September 3, 2005

I'm aware, I realized that as soon as I had posted the damn thing, but what can you do. I'll admit that my brain is not exactly at it's finest these days.
posted by Kattullus at 8:28 PM on September 3, 2005

That highway going into the water... I'd use the word spectacular if it wasn't so chilling.
posted by selfnoise at 8:32 PM on September 3, 2005

I think this has already been mentioned somewhere in one (or more) of the many threads concerning Katrina.
posted by Goblindegook at 8:33 PM on September 3, 2005

If using Google Earth, zoom in close, tilt about 45 degrees, enable building, then toggle the overlays.

I couldn't fully imagine the flooding until I did that.
posted by zerokey at 8:39 PM on September 3, 2005

Is this a broached levee?
posted by some chick at 9:17 PM on September 3, 2005

some chick: that is the industrial canal, it flooded the lower 9th ward.
posted by toomuch at 9:30 PM on September 3, 2005

It is a "breeched" levee - on the Industrial Canal about 1 1/2 to 2 miles from my (perhaps former) home. It appears that the water is flowing back out of that neighborhood - Lower Ninth/Holy Cross - into the canal.
posted by custis at 9:42 PM on September 3, 2005

selfnoise: This end is even worse. It's gone. Just gone. Er ...
posted by dhartung at 10:15 PM on September 3, 2005

dhartung: Where the sidewalk ends.
posted by brundlefly at 11:00 PM on September 3, 2005

Thanks, dhartung. My sinuses, now juice filled, will sureley love you forever.

(and it looks like the situation has become so bad that it's devolved into a huge game of Tetris)
posted by zerokey at 11:03 PM on September 3, 2005

er..surely
posted by zerokey at 11:08 PM on September 3, 2005

I'm not sure what the distinction between satellite images and aerial photos are; but why is you think these are not satellite images, please?
posted by nthdegx at 1:31 AM on September 4, 2005

Goblindegook writes "I think this has already been mentioned somewhere in one (or more) of the many threads concerning Katrina."

Yeah, I pointed it out here, resisting the urge to start a new thread (although I had come to the Blue to point it out, having seen it mentioned on digg.com)... Really, lots of threads just makes it harder to keep abreast of what's really happening - and I've already seen people cut 'n pasting word-for-word responses into at least two seperate threads...
posted by benzo8 at 4:02 AM on September 4, 2005