[BurbankKarl]

Hurricane Center asking if ham radio is the only communications available to Slidell....asking if officials have notified their family....

States all hams on Slidell are not on the air. Operators niece stuck on second floor of building, unable to get to her...

Roads are flooded, streets are blocked,

Lake Ponchatrain now extends to OLD SPANISH TRAIL

Cell towers down, repeaters are down, no cell service, no phone lines, no broadband.

[Types_with_Fist]

Jesus!

[BurbankKarl]

http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=Slidell,+LA

slidell map

[Michael Goldsberry]

"OLD SPANISH TRAIL"

Hwy 90.

(We call it OST here too.)

[BurbankKarl]

They are giving health and welfare traffic now....telling the hurricane center to contact their wives they are okay...this is NWS personnel.

[Coldwater Creek]

These people need our prayers!!!!!