The husband of one of my Mom’s friends drove by my Mom’s house today and reported back that the only obvious exterior damage was a few missing shingles. Fortunately, she’d had a bunch of work done on the exterior of the house recently. While that might seem like having it rain after you washed your… Read More: My Mom’s House Appears Okay »
NOAA has posted detailed aerial photos from this week. I was told by a friend that they were satellite images, but I’ve since read that they were aerial photos. I thought they were a little too detailed to have been taken by a satellite. They have an image map of the area where you can… Read More: Post-Katrina Aerial Photos »
If you’re looking for someone who may have been in the path of Katrina or want to post info on someone who you know made it through okay, please check out the following registries. National Next of Kin Registry Hurricane Katrina Survivors GCN Survivor-Connector DataBase – Mirror 1 or Mirror 2 Craig’s List New Orleans… Read More: Katrina Missing Person and Survivor Registries »
I updated my Katrina Video post to contain a couple more links to videos, mostly from major news networks. There’s not that much amateur video out there, yet, since most of these people don’t have electricity, much less an internet connection. Later today, I plan to post some info on how radio and television stations… Read More: Katrina Updates »
And in a needed break from the mostly depressing hurricane news, I bring you news (though many of you likely are ahead of me on this) of The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. So far, Intelligent Design proponents have put forth an extremely narrow, dogmatic proposal on how the universe must have come about… Read More: Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster »
The Oakland Tribune had a story today on Eqecat, featuring a picture and interview with David F. Smith, the husband of a friend of mine from Biloxi. David has become quite familiar with Biloxi, so I’m sure he is well suited to help Eqecat develop their estimates of the total insured losses from Katrina. Eqecat… Read More: Eqecat and Katrina »
So far, all the friends I’ve directly or indirectly heard from made it through the hurricane relatively okay. Of course, it’s the ones I haven’t heard from that worry me. Due to the lack of electricity and the still unreliable landline and mobile phone networks, it’s hard to get the word out from even the… Read More: Updates from Friends and Family »
My officemate pointed me to an article titled “What if Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans?” by Shirley Laska from the Center for Hazards Assessment, Response and Technology at the University of New Orleans. The paper describes much of what has now happened in New Orleans, and what is likely to happen there in… Read More: Prescient Article on a Hurricane’s Effect on New Orleans »
A commenter on one of my other posts pointed out that a PDF version of the newest issue of the Mississippi Press can be downloaded from gulflive.com. There are a lot of sad photos and stories in it. It looks like Ocean Springs got hit really bad. Most of the dozen or so casinos on… Read More: Mississippi Press Online »
The Weather.com blog has a page with links related to the Katrina aftermath.