Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here (But please, no Getty images)

http:www.freerepublic.com | August 29, 2005

[Howlin]

Several people have requested a thread JUST for images of the storm.

Post them here, please.

[STARWISE]

Mother Mary Landreiu on and Gov. Blanco finishing up on the streaming audio on CH. 6 -- WSDU. FEMA Director just finished, and praised the LA team ..

New Orleans

Gulfport Mississippi police officer Jason Payne gets into his patrol car as Hurricane Katrina continues to rage at the Thomasville Apartments in Biloxi August 29, 2005 after officers rescued a woman trapped in the rubble of a fallen brick wall that crashed through her roof (background), breaking several bones. Several buildings were heavily damaged as the brick siding on most of the buildings collapsed during the peak of the category four storm. The storm slammed into New Orleans on Monday with winds of 135 mph (216 kph), shutting 91 percent of the normal 1.5 million barrels per day of crude oil production in the Gulf Coast region.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I'm more worried about snakes than anything...

I would be too around there, they are some of the most poisonous found.

[dfwgator]

See the DUmmie FUnnies for the DUmmies own words.

No thanks, I just ate.

[NoCurrentFreeperByThatName]

bump

[skr]

Indeed it is a scary thought. I hadn't heard of the New Madrid Fault before. I thought it was bad enough that Florida is really only an oversized sand bar that will eventually erode away or turn into a series of sinkholes. The New Madrid Fault is too close for comfort.

[flutters]

The Mound Underpass on Interstate-10 is flooded near downtown New Orleans on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina dumped torrential rain and battered the city when it made landfall near Grand Isle. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

Palm trees are bent from the force of Hurricane Katrina in an area hit by hurricane Ivan last September in the Grande Lagoon area of Pensacola, Fla. Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. Construction material from the home being renovated after Ivan blows in the breeze.(AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove)

Looters carry bags of groceries through floodwaters after taking the merchandise away from a wind damaged convenience store in New Orleans on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

[skr]

Your tagline makes sense to me.

[LibertyGirl77]

An *offshore* oil rig, yes -- the kind that drills for sub-sea oil out in the Gulf of Mexico. It's a floating platform with drilling equipment, which anchors in a likely spot and then runs a pipe with a drill bit down to the sea floor and then starts drilling.

So . . did they do any kind of safeguard thing to seal up the hole they made, or do we just have tons of oil oozing into the gulf now?

[lastchance]

Homestead. I think they had to close the AFB after the hurricane. Also Country Walk subdivision was heavily damaged. Andrew was a relatively dry storm ( litte rain) if the rainfall had been like it is in Katrina the damage would have been a lot worse.

[skr]

I wonder what happened to those two looters.

[mamabadger]

Gee, glad to see you can put bitterness and prejudice aside during a time of tragedy.

[blu]

Well, N'awlins is called "The Big Easy", so they must have opened their trunks to make it easier on the looters!

[lastchance]

I think the damage from Katrina will be worse for several reaons.
Heavy rains also Katrina
hit more populated areas
hit areas with more substandard housing stock
hit areas with non diverse economy. From what I understand in areas like Biloxi most people depend on the Casinos and other service industry jobs. I could be wrong on this.
hit areas that will have major impact on the rest of US economy. Mississippi river shipping, oil rigs, refineries, etc.
Now the people who have lost so much will have the added grief of dealing with insurance companies. If they did not have flood insurance ( most do not unless they are in a NFIP flood zone V, A, AE) they will find out that most policies do NOT cover damage by flooding. God give them strength.

[MonaMars]

"Here I was thinking wow that's SOME surge! LOL"

:) Would've been damned funny if it had been the surge. I'm still waiting for the first 'gator in an unusual place' story.

[cyborg]

yep!

[RightOnline]

Looting? They call that "shopping".

Pathetic losers.

[Wolfstar]

Hi, Howlin. I was planning to post a thread for hurricane damage photos, but you beat me to it. However, I collected a lot of photos and will post them now. Some may be duplicates of what's already on the thread, but I have dial-up here at home, so waiting for every page of 300+ posts to display will take too long.

I've organized these photos mostly by location, but begin with NOAA satellite pics that give a great sense of the scale of Katrina when she hit, and also the precise location of the eye when it came ashore.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite image of Hurricane Katrina taken as the storm moved inland after it came ashore along the Gulf Coast, August 29, 2005.

Enhanced NOAA satellite image shows the eye of Hurricane Katrina as it makes landfall just east of New Orleans.

[lastchance]

Hi I think I have asked you this before, but I get brain farts so forgive my forgetfullness. Do you live in South Florida? The local news had an interesting piece on about the 1928 Hurricane. We can be very thankful that better storm predicting has saved thousands of lives.

[Wolfstar]

The white membrane covering the roof of the Louisiana Superdome was ripped off over a large area.

An overturned car sits in front of the Superdome.