Wipe Out

For all intents and purposes, New Orleans; Gulfport, MS; Biloxi, MS (and all points in between) are wiped out.

Hurricane Katrina has become the worst natural disaster in US history.

New Orleans is underwater: breached levees pour rising floodwaters in from Lake Pontchartrain. There is no uncontaminated water, no electricity, no phone, no bathroom, scarce food, widespread looting, lawlessness, no jobs, no homes, people stranded and rescued from rooftops. LA Governor Blanco has said the entire city must be evacuated. The city is gone. Thousands sheltered at the Super Dome will be bused to Houston's Astrodome.

Galveston never recovered from the 1900 hurricane. It is doubtful that New Orleans will recover from Katrina. Rebuilding a city that is six feet below sea level does not have a high probability.

Gulfport and Biloxi have been devastated by Katrina's storm surge -- 25 feet in some areas. $500,000 a day in casino tax revenues lost. Thirty miles of Mississippi coast obliterated. Unlike New Orleans, the floodwaters are receding.

--LynZee
Related:
Katrina -- Lake New Orleans
Katrina -- Hell On Earth
Echoes Of Camille