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Hurricane Katrina

Wednesday, 31st August 2005 by Alex

Hurricane Katrina has torn through the United States causing untold damage and horrendous loss of life. Katrina has destroyed the eastern part of the I-10 bridge over Lake Pontchartrain (shown here before it was damaged), flooded 80 percent of New Orleans, and damaged the roof of largest domed structure in the world, the Louisiana Superdome.

Interstate 10

The worst affected states, by this, the third most intense system to strike the United States in recorded history, are Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. It is believed that Katrina is, (in monetary terms) the most costly hurricane to affect the USA, and sadly may yet also become the most costly in terms of human lives.

For more information about these events, I recommend the Wikipedia page on Hurricane Katrina, which is updated continually as information becomes available.

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8 Responses to 'Hurricane Katrina'

  1. 1. noj says: August 31st, 2005 at 11:11 pm

    I heard a rumor that Google will be updating Maps/Earth with satellite imagery from the Hurricane.

    Would definitely be interesting if that were true.

    I am about 100 miles west of New Orleans - and it seems as if nothing has happened where I am. Its quite odd thinking that less than 2 hours away the entire city of New Orleans is under water.

  2. 2. pooms says: August 31st, 2005 at 11:49 pm

    According to DigitalGlobe, they are working with Google to provide updated imagery via Google Maps and Google Earth as soon as possible:
    http://www.digitalglobe.com/katrina_info.html

    Keep an eye on the following remote sensing satellite companies for images of the hurricane area, some of them already have before &
    after satellite images posted (especially ORBIMAGE)
    http://www.orbimage.com/
    http://www.digitalglobe.com/
    http://www.spaceimaging.com/

  3. 3. Hamilton Lovecraft says: September 1st, 2005 at 1:05 am

    The link to the wikipedia page is incorrect (lowercase k in Katrina), should be:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

  4. 4. Luke says: September 1st, 2005 at 5:51 am

    I was watching CNN and they showed a picture of that bridge. It is COMPLETELY destroyed.

  5. 5. Luke says: September 1st, 2005 at 6:09 am

    blah.. here are the proper links
    Before
    After

  6. 6. robertw says: September 1st, 2005 at 2:41 pm

    hmm…6 posts

    I think thats a record for how quickly a satellite picture can turn into a debate about the Bush administration.

  7. 7. Luciano A. Ferrer says: September 1st, 2005 at 4:51 pm

    In irak 1000+ people have died too, but for other causes…

    Can anyone put a sight of that bridge?

  8. 8. Alex says: September 5th, 2005 at 10:35 pm

    Sorry guys, but although some of the comments posted here were indeed intelligent and well thought through, [Edvado is right][1], this really isn’t the place for that kind of discussion. Comments regretfully deleted, and thread closed.

    [1]: http://googlesightseeing.com/2005/09/03/katrina-map-updates/#comment-5763