View the flooded city of New Orleans via satellite courtesy of ap.org.
Many more comparison satellite pictures showing conditions in the Big Easy before and after Hurricane Katrina are available at GlobalSecurity.org.
But what about the rest of the coastline?
This is the town of Biloxi, Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina. Read on to see before the hurricane struck.
This is the town of Biloxi, Mississippi before Hurricane Katrina demolished it.
Congresswoman Mary Landrieu personally experienced a very political response to the crisis.
Louisiana’s US Senator Mary Landrieu:
“But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast – black and white, rich and poor, young and old – deserve far better from their national government.†source
This is cut of the exact same cloth as the response to 911: a failure to be candid with the world about the situation and instead trying to use it for petty advantage.
You have to go to the foreign press to read that New Orleans will be shuttered for at least 9 months, before ANY reconstruction can BEGIN. And more likely to be 2 years. This from FEMA’s Director of Recovery.
FEMA is the agency of the U.S. federal government that used to be responsible for disaster preparedness and disaster recovery. It was an agency that was created by Jimmy Carter’s administration and elevated to a cabinet level position by President Clinton.
Following the reorganization under Bush/Cheney that created the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA’s job was changed to be disaster recovery only. In other words, their mandate was cut in half. The seat was removed from the president’s cabinet as disaster preparedness took a backseat to foreign warfighting.
How does one recover from a disaster if not by preparing for it in advance?
Let us pull together not apart. I am a survivor of this disaster.
Talk of lame duck presidents (and he was reelected). When the study on New Orleans is done and there was no plan for emerg. shelters ,food water ,or generators; This is asinine. Two days to India, six to Louisiana.
would like to know what if anything happened to the mississippi coast coliseum on hwy 90 in BILOXI
I am trying to find out if my ex inlaws home is still standing. It was on Howard Avenue. Mrs. Breckenridge’s Home. I think her grandson Ronald Blanchard was living there.
I am devistated about Hurricane Katrina.I will do everything that i can to help the victims of Katrina.Let them know they are in my prayers, and that my school Chaffee Jr./Sr. High is doing a HUGE fundraiser for them.Let them know that everything wil be ok if they just ask God to take it into his hands and help them make it through this.
hey I just wanted 2 say thatI’m extremely sorry for what happened. It seems each year we’re struck with a different force. A couple years back it was the 9/11 tragedy. This pain and suffering must end. I don’t understand why we must continue 2 live like this. There are childredn out there who have n place to live, no food to eat, and no kind of reassurance that everythings gonna be all right. I’m 15 now and I’ve seen a lot happened to innocent peope throughout the years. I watch the news everyday just to see if those people are recieving the help they so dearly need. I don’t know where this road is gonna lead but I wish all those families the best of luck and send my love and prayers to them all.
Where is the steel reinforcing (re-bar) in all those bridges that just plain fell apart?
Even if every poor black family in NOLA did have a gar with gas, look at all the egress routes that were completely demolished!!
WHERE is the REBAR in those bridges??!!!
I smell another botched Brown & Root (or similar company) job!! The irresponsible pocket-lining Fat-Cat pukes that had those those bridges thrown up like that are cut from the same cloth as Mr Hand-Picked Arabian Horse Association President-cum-Disaster Preparedness Head, Mike Brown. Your Head Is Next, Chertoff!
Oh – by the way…. anything built to replace the destroyed buildings and bridges, are NOT going to be funded as per Davis Bacon.
Go back and look very closely at all those now collapsed cheap-ass bridges, then re-read my statement above. Heed my words.
Good ole boys do not great construction workers make. You get what you pay for.
Nanette Ward
ret’d UNION carpenter
I am young and don’t really have money nor does my single hard working mom, but we have helped people out from this disaster and are trying to do everything possible to continue to help. I know that if Florida was in a similar situation we would want the help of the rest of the U.S. as well. I pray for all of the victims. God Bless!
Wasn’t it funny when you automatically started comparing
Bombay’s floods to New Orleans in your mind? Just incase you missed any…
To all the Americans on this list..nothing of this is
meant to hurt you..
it’s an observation..and there was actually nothing that
you guys cld have
done to change it.. you have done your best on your side..
the rest was up
to the others. luv you all lots…
btw.. I hvn’t checked the facts… if any wrong..plz feel
free to say it..
Interesting comparison.. New Orleans and Mumbai
Inches of rain in New Orleans due to hurricane
Katrina… 18
Inches of rain in Mumbai (July 27th)…. 37.1
Population of New Orleans… 484,674
Population of Mumbai…. 12,622,500
Deaths in new orleans within 48 hours of
Katrina…100
Deaths in mumbai within 48 hours of rain.. 37
Number of people to be evacuated in New
Orleans…entire city
Number of people evacuated in Mumbai…10,000
Cases of shooting and violence in New
Orleans…Countless
Cases of shooting and violence in Mumbai.. None
(um..er..what about the riots at the stations and railway tracks?And protests
against the state gov’t?)
Time taken for US army to reach New Orleans…48hours
Time taken for Indian army to reach Mumbai…12hours
Status 48hours later…New Orleans is still waiting
for relief, army and electricty
Status 48hours later..Mumbai is back on its feet and
is business is as usual
USA…world’s most developed nation
India…JUST A DEVELOPING NATION..
I’m sorry that all of you all are having to go through this.I really do feel for everybody down there my prayers go out for everyone
These are pictures we see daily. We live with this distruction, can we see some pictures of other things, we are cut off from the world. We have only 1 station, we cannot see what you see. Send us a little joy, flowers, waterfalls, people laughing, playing, stc.
I am concerned for my cousin Joe Wheeler
as he reside in Biloxi. I have tried to reach him
but to no avail
Our family home from which we could see the
gulf, I feel is gone and it makes me sad. It was
previously owned by Eleanor Wheeler but later purchased by Martha Hunt and family.
The Hunts,Ruth, Susan & Martha were
affected by this tradgedy but feel they have
found safe shelter elsewhere.
I have warm memories of my times in Biloxi and
as I did many times, flew into Gulfport and enjoyed a leisurly ride into a town I called home.
My heart goes out to all that have lost but hope you will find the strength to go on
There is nothing to hard for GOD. He brings Good out of the bad. Please, everyone in New Orleans, be strong because help is on the way.
I HOPE IT GET BETTER
Please stop the blame, hate and violence – it only brings more pain. Love conquers all. If we just all kick in, we can make it through this.
I said a satelite view katrina not new orleans
Thank you for all the support and help from all around the world. It really means alot when total strangers pitch in and help thanks to Beaufort SC Marines they have been a God send. Thank You again from a little southern girl from Long Beach
I am really very sad that why GOD is punishing
the innocents like this. My heart goes to one and
all in New Orleans. I can only request the present PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH TO HELP
THE SUFFERERS TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE.
Hi Christy, no one answered my plea from earlier, so I’ll ask you (hope you don’t mind).
Do you know anyone who has lived in the community of Ocean Springs for a long time?
There is a house in Ocean Springs that is very special to me. If someone that is a long-time resident of there could please check on that house (and it’s residents, if any), I would sure love to hear how it is.
It is made of earth, and I really wish people would learn about that house, built in the late 1940′s, and build their new homes of rammed earth, as it is built.
Please let me know if you or anyone reading this finds out about that building in Ocean Springs, OK?
Thank you
Nanette
Why in the world would god let this h appen to so many people , good people who have never done anything bad in their whole life. I am praying for them everyday and hope they all rebuild their lives.
I would like to know if I can help in any way just email me and let me know I will do anything you need me to do. I am praying for all of you everyday .
Id like them to swing the camera around to see if many people are still living in cars from both hurricanes.
I remember a small biblical parable from when I was a child. A story of how Jesus took a fish and broke it in half and feed a multitude of people. There must of been a stash somewhere. I also seem to remember when George Walker Bush got into office some of the Churches got 10,000 for the homeless. I read the article in the Amery Wi free press where the Catholic Church boasted about putting the funds in the new building. As a tax payer I’m asking Where is Jesus’s stash
Lots of people have been getting FEMA trailers from what I hear to live in while they rebuild their towns.
Yes they have to rebuild their towns because unemployment is high and there is no place migrant workers to stay. I think FEMA should buy the empty Chuches around the country for times like this.
My father and brother left for Buloxi this yesterday morning. They will be working to haul off cars,junk,limbs ect.(anything that FEMA won’t) We are praying for everyone there.I just hope that he can help you all and start getting your lives back. I recieved a call that he and my brother are sleeping in the truck tonight. There is just no place available for them to stay. On that note, they are still there helping anyone they can and will continue to be there until thay are no longer needed. There truley are great people in this world and if people don’t realize that after a tragedy like this, Well then, They are headed for a place that no one truly want to go. I am praying for you guys, and if you have a chance, Say a prayer for my family too. God listens and and God is who’s going to help fix your lives.
all i have to say is i’m sry fot those of you whov’e lost their freinds,family members lives. I have many students from new orelans at my school, we all treat them well not wanting to be in their place. Anyway ive done alll i ca i hope, and pary for you to relize next ttime to GET OUT! fot hoses of you whov’e stayed. thanks
THERE’S NOT A DAY THAT GOES BY THAT I DON’T THINK ABOUT MISSISSIPPI & NEW ORLEANS, YOU ARE ALL IN MY PRAYERS.AND I CAN’T WAIT TO BE A TOURIST AGAIN.I KNOW THAT BOTH PLACES WILL REBUILD STRONGER & BETTER.I AM FROM ALABAMA AND IT REALLY HIT CLOSE TO HOME FOR ME. PLEASE KEEP YOUR FAITH, LOVE YOU ALL.
thats so wrong i know what ya’ll been through
I was just down there with some of my church members also 18 other Churches came together in all there was 103 of us, we stayed in Mobile Alabama we traveled back and forth everyday we worked on 2 different houses in Biloxi, I just want to say that God is there and he hears your cries, He is your Source. Dont give up on him, seek his face, he Loves you and will never leave you.
I also want to say that Im so sorry for what has happened to you, I didnt want to come back, there is so much to be done it was hard to leave. My heart cries outto God for you, Please remember he will bring you through this. I believe your going to have a Great Revival down there. God Bless You All and my Prayers our with you. kim
[...] Biloxi, Mississippi was hit hard too. They came through and did what had to be done. Do we hear a lot of complaining from them? No, we don’t. (Before and after pictures can be seen at http://www.sprol.com/?p=246 )  It doesn’t help that there are lots of people that are actively working to abuse the system– people trying to get something for nothing, trying to get more than they really deserve. All they’re really doing is taking money away from people and places that really need it. [...]