for you google earth users, check these layers out to see the destruction wroght by katrina. maybe this should be in the frontroom.. but the imagery might be a bit on the disturbing side for some? there's no point i'm trying to make or anything, just letting some of you know about this info in case you didn't already.
http://earth.google.com/katrina.html
here is an example:
before
after
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