The AP just put up a zoomable, navigable satellite image of New Orleans taken on Aug. 31. On the upper left, you’ll see a sharp line between lighter and darker color; to the left, the lighter color is dry, to the right is the 80 percent of the city that’s flooded. You can see even the broken roof on the Superdome.
check out rocketboom.com’s sept. 2nd post for a real aerial view.
not this detatched incomprehensible satellite bs
Kathryn Cramer has been doing lots of work with satellite photos; see here and above and below.
I’ve been linking lots of general coverage myself.
Kathryn Cramer has been doing lots of work with satellite photos; see here and above and below.
I’ve been linking lots of general coverage myself.
It should be noted, Jeff, that the 20,000 people sitting at the Convention Center waiting to be rescued are about 14 blocks away from Algiers … which is completely unflooded and accessible via Interstate 10.
The Convention Center is NOT FLOODED; nor is the route out of New Orleans for those folks.
This is classic herd behavior. Everyone is waiting for someone else to do something; rather than doing something themselves.
If you remember back to September 11, you will recall that 4 million New Yorkers walked 9 miles out of Manhattan. I didn’t see anyone standing around waiting for the federal government to give them a ride out of town.
>>”If you remember back to September 11, you will recall that 4 million New Yorkers walked 9 miles out of Manhattan. I didn’t see anyone standing around waiting for the federal government to give them a ride out of town.”
True, but people went to the Superdome and the Convention Center because their leaders told them to go there, or they were taken there after rescue. The comparison would be valid only if New Yorkers were told to congregate in Yankee Stadium and, having done that, were faced with a flooded and incapacitated city.
If the boroughs of NYC had suffered what the parishes of NO have suffered, I suspect New Yorkers would be behaving in much the same way.
That said, the Superdome was intended as a refuge from the storm, not from the flooding that happend when the levees broke. I’m sure everyone who went to the Superdome to escape Katrina thought they’d be back in their homes in a day or so. People can be amazingly naive when catastrophe is knocking on the door. I guess denial does that.
BillG,
I think you just made my point. Nobody told 4 million New Yorkers to walk out of Manhattan. Nobody had to.
But in South Louisiana, there’s a culture. And that culture is “somebody else will take care of me.” Food, water, safety is a mere 14 blocks away. Nobody will walk there. Everyone sits there demanding help. It’s amazing.
There are no real leaders in New Orleans.
The “leaders” said “go to the Convention Center.” And that’s where the followers went. The leaders had no plan to actually feed, clothe, house, or slake the thirst of these followers.
The “leaders” are waiting for someone else to do it while the followers die of dehydration and starvation.
Now, this is a *real* map of the damage:
http://tinyurl.com/ccdf6
AP’s so-called “map”, made by some cretin with the detestable Flash animation, is useless.
rightnumberone – please wake up and straighten out your attitude. If you watch the news at all, you’ll see that:
1. Some of them CANNOT walk. They are injured.
2. Guards are BLOCKING them from walking. Duh. Reported again on news tonight. They have to stay where they are. The ONLY way to get out is to be transported.
I’m disgusted that you think the victims of this hurricane are so lazy they won’t walk 14 blocks for their own survival. The area they are in has essentially been locked down.
Enough bantering about what you would do or what they should do, even with the news, we know not the full story. These are victims, and should be treated as such.
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