Comments on: Bird's Eye View of Destruction

Bird's Eye View of Destruction

Kattullus — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:02:15 -0800

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.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:12:20 -0800

Argh! My mother's house is STILL a blurry splotch. Satellites suck.

By: nmiell

nmiell — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:24:47 -0800

Actually, this is aerial photos. Satellites would suck even more.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:28:42 -0800

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.

By: selfnoise

selfnoise — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:32:04 -0800

That highway going into the water... I'd use the word spectacular if it wasn't so chilling.

By: Goblindegook

Goblindegook — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:33:29 -0800

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

By: zerokey

zerokey — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 20:39:23 -0800

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.

By: some chick

some chick — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:17:18 -0800

Is this a broached levee?

By: toomuch

toomuch — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:30:56 -0800

some chick: that is the industrial canal, it flooded the lower 9th ward.

By: custis

custis — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:42:07 -0800

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.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 22:15:44 -0800

selfnoise: This end is even worse. It's gone. Just gone. Er ...

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:00:09 -0800

dhartung: Where the sidewalk ends.

By: zerokey

zerokey — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:03:40 -0800

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)

By: zerokey

zerokey — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:08:35 -0800

er..surely

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 01:31:29 -0800

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?

By: benzo8

benzo8 — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 04:02:14 -0800

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...