Katrina in pictures

[Adrian II]

Since there is not much we can do as individuals to help Louisiana and Mississippi cope with the consequences of Katrina and many people are posting here to let off steam, why don't we use pictures as coathangers for that?

This would be my favourite for today. It's from The Guardian. I think it says a lot, if not all, in as much as pictures are able to tell a story. What does it say to me? The picture is as ambiguous as they can get. The boy pushing his brother in the wheelchair breaks my heart. I wouldn't mind if this Bubba looted all the stores in the world to provide for his invalid little brother. But people like them are most likely to become the victims of looting and robbery.


A police officer keeps watch in downtown New Orleans
Photo: Mario Tama/Getty

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[Gawain of Orkeny]

Click on the pic or word New Orleans at the upper right to see many devasting pictures.

These are the worst Ive seen. Truly amazing.

PS looking at the state of the city and the Superdome I wonder how this will effect the Saints in the upcoming NFL season. Where will they play?

[Aenlic]

Greed before safety.

Pass laws allowing gambling and casinos; but to make some idiots happy and so you can claim to be restricting the casinos, require that they all be on the water only. Why? Here's an idea, build really big barges and slap them right in one of the most hurricane-prone places in the world. Base your entire economy off of the tourism these casinos provide; but don't have the sense to build them on land and make them structurally sound. The result?



This casino barge used to float in the water on the other side of that highway.



This casino barge is now sitting in the middle of a residential neighborhood, on top of some houses which may have been occupied at the time.

[drone]

PS looking at the state of the city and the Superdome I wonder how this will effect the Saints in the upcoming NFL season. Where will they play?

I think they have a lot of away games early in the season, but they are looking into using the Alamodome in San Antonio for their games. Hopefully they will use the proceeds for relief efforts. Jeez, I am a sad, sports-addicted nut...

[PanzerJaeger]

Coffins lie exposed in Biloxi, Mississippi.



A toxic film is found in standing water around New Orleans.



No more roving for that Rover.


My biggest concern is that nasty water. Theres sewage, bodies, chemicals of all kind floating around in it and these people seem oblivious to the sludge they're walking in.

[_Martyr_]

That film on the water is oil PJ.

PS looking at the state of the city and the Superdome I wonder how this will effect the Saints in the upcoming NFL season. Where will they play?

Seriously, that would be the least of my worries at this moment.

[Ronin]

the image that impressed me most so far was on tv last night....it was of a police officer standing in the middle of a street with a shotgun trying to stop some looters....but they were just too many for 1 guy to handle....it was like "you put that down!....hey you, were you think you´re going,(turn´s back to first one) I told you to put that down"....

it just kind of made more clear just how FUBAR the situation is over there.

[Proletariat]

From way, way up. Click to enlarge.

Not very emotional, but awestriking to me.

Check the below link for fascinating images, mostly of non-Katrina things.

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Observatory/

[_Martyr_]

Not trying to be being political, but interesting nonetheless...

[Aenlic]

I just saw something on video which disturbs me greatly. A woman at the New Orleans Convention Center holding a baby, less than 1 year old, that was obviously overcome with dehydration and heat exhaustion, possibly heat stroke. It was limp and lethargic, the head was coverted in sweat. That baby was near death. The woman said she was having trouble waking the baby up. She had no water. I suspect the baby will be dead shortly, or died shortly after that video was shot.

I derive some amusement baiting Redleg and Gawain and even more baiting one of our local Schutzstaffel wannabes over the blame game and other issues; but, seriously, it doesn't matter who is to blame. These people need help now. Not tomorrow, not next week. They need it now. And they aren't getting it fast enough. The official death toll so far is only 200; but there may be that many dead just inside the convention center itself. People who went there looking for help, who were told to go there. It's appalling.

[Proletariat]

Nm.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

I derive some amusement baiting Redleg and Gawain and even more baiting one of our local Schutzstaffel wannabes over the blame game and other issues; but, seriously, it doesn't matter who is to blame. These people need help now. Not tomorrow, not next week

Where have i baited or even blamed anyone. I said lets not look for blame but help these people. It seems you are easily amused.

I just saw something on video which disturbs me greatly. A woman at the New Orleans Convention Center holding a baby, less than 1 year old, that was obviously overcome with dehydration and heat exhaustion, possibly heat stroke. It was limp and lethargic, the head was coverted in sweat. That baby was near death. The woman said she was having trouble waking the baby up. She had no water. I suspect the baby will be dead shortly, or died shortly after that video was shot.

I heard Trent Lott on the radio. He said his house was gone but that wasnt so bad. He said there are many DEAD babies who have died for exactly the reasons this one was sick from. He also said there are dead bodies on the side of the interstate with state troopers having only time to cover them up and not remove them. The astrodome will never be fit for humans again. Theres no one to blame here. Just misery and sorrow. Things will probably get a whole lot worse before they get better.

[Ronin]

Not trying to be being political, but interesting nonetheless...

yeah....one would never guess that the difference between "looting" and "finding" could be so narrow....

[_Martyr_]

Where have i baited or even blamed anyone. I said lets not look for blame but help these people. It seems you are easily amused.

Eh... go read his post again, thats EXACTLY what he was saying.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Eh... go read his post again, thats EXACTLY what he was saying

GAH

[Aenlic]

You know I love you, Gawain. Well, not love exactly, more like in a manly sort of way.

Seriously though, my post above was meant in the spirit of saying that although I enjoy jerking your chain as you do mine on occasion; the real situation is tragic, almost beyond belief. We can only hope that the lessons learned from this lodge very deep; so we don't have to repeat it in a few years or a few decades.

[m52nickerson]

Its all horable, we all need to donate at least some thing to the Red Cross. There are over a million people who lost every thing. Were there any forum members from down there?

[Adrian II]

BBC - Survivor and rescue worker, Mississippi

Today I went to a notary where we signed my 87-year-old Dad's home over to me. He is going to stay in an excellent care home and I am going to bleed from multiple financial wounds for this, but it is worth it. It's a spacious 8-room house outside a town in the North, sort of our Lake District but without the hills. Clean, green and wet. Swimming and yachting in summer, skating in winter. All the stuff from my mother's and father's lives is in that house, their furniture, their old photographs, letters, right down tot the pots and pans, out of some of which I have eaten when I was a small kid. Now my kids are going to have the time of their life there, with a huge garden to play football and an equallt huge attic to hide from life's woes (I'll be hiding there from the mortgage collector occasionally).

So I imagined, for a moment, that all of that would be lost due to some natural disaster. It hardly bears thinking about. Which leaves me tongue-tied vis-a-vis such pictures. I would pray for them if I could, Dev Dave, but I am sure you will do so in my place.

[Proletariat]

[R'as al Ghul]

It's sad to see that after so many have died in the flood
there's still no safety for them but they have to fear to be
shot/attacked by their fellow citizens.



Situations like these always seem to show the "evil" of people,
regardless of race, colour, culture or nationality.

[R'as al Ghul]

Urgently needed busses:

[Tricon]

That picture is one of the more disturbing....

[Gawain of Orkeny]

That picture is one of the more disturbing....

Thats nothing. Have any you checked out those in the link I provided? There must be 75 of them at least there. Most are worse than this.

[Kagemusha]