Hurricane Katrina
Wednesday, 31st August 2005 by Alex Turnbull
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.
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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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.
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/
The link to the wikipedia page is incorrect (lowercase k in Katrina), should be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina
I was watching CNN and they showed a picture of that bridge. It is COMPLETELY destroyed.
blah.. here are the proper links Before After
hmm…6 posts
I think thats a record for how quickly a satellite picture can turn into a debate about the Bush administration.
In irak 1000+ people have died too, but for other causes…
Can anyone put a sight of that bridge?
Sorry guys, but although some of the comments posted here were indeed intelligent and well thought through, Edvado is right, this really isn’t the place for that kind of discussion. Comments regretfully deleted, and thread closed.