A Live Blog From Center City New Orleans

http://mgno.com/ ^

[franky]

This a live blog site. The only communication from mid town

[franky]

An Internet Company is functioning on Poydras st! They have fuel and a generator and a fiber connection to the Internet. Their operations manager is posting several times a day. The posts are tragic, heroic, inspiring and crushingly sad. I'm stunned after reading through them. Scroll down and click the previous button a few times and start from the weekend and read forward. It makes me think of the stand or lucifer's hammer.
DirectNIC lives! (new window)

[SerpentDove]

One thing I have yet to find out. Is the French Quarter underwater?

[raygun]

Can this be verified by independent sources?

[feedback doctor]

Here is a video link, police in New Orleans caught looting and confronted on tape. It's pmsnbc and Olberman attempts to excuse it. Wacth you won't believe it.

Police Looting

[hc87]

From the River to at least Bourbon looks to be dry based on what I just saw on ABC. The aerial photo I saw earlier today looked to have water up by Rampart and maybe Burgundy, but most of the quarter looked dry to me.

It's the highest point in the city, so that doesn't much surprise me.

[Just mythoughts]

Thanks great post.

[raygun]

EAGLES UP! my man.

[USNBandit]

I love the request for .45 ACP ammo. Wish I could help them out.

[SerpentDove]

Thanks. Not that I ever go there; just curious.

[Melpomene]

Local news gave us this link. It's not the best resolution, but you can see that the French Quarter is bone dry. If you have trouble locating it, click on "view labelled map," and it will indicate the French Quarter. It's at the tip of the Mississippi River bend.

If you have trouble with the link at the top, try getting there here.

[SerpentDove]

Cooool link!

Thanks.

[japaneseghost]

This guy will be the new Matt Drudge.

If I had a website, I would definitely trust him to host it.

[Congressman Billybob]

God bless the Internet. And hats off to the intrepid souls who are "on the air live" from the center of New Orleans. Good people, brave people, fine citizens of the Net, of the US, and of New Orleans.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column: "Tide of Lies Swamps NY Times: Employees Riot and Steal Office Supplies"

[hc87]

I found the following version a little easier to work with. You have to click on the photo after a complete download to get the extreme closeup. It looks like my old apartment on Decatur was feet dry most of the week.

http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00205/Satellittbilde_fra__205774a.jpg

[nw_arizona_granny]

Bookmark for later reading.

[skr]

From what I saw on TV, people were wading down the streets and alleys of the French Quarter, but the water didn't look like much compared to the residential areas they've been showing.

[Melpomene]

Awesome. I'm having trouble getting the closeup, but I'm going to keep trying. From the other link, it looks like we've probably got water, and my neighbor's g@dd$#@ pine tree that we've been trying to get him to cut down for over a year landed on our roof. Oh well. If we're going to lose the homestead, we may as well lose it big.

[Captainpaintball]

The coverage on TV is absolutely excruciating. Other than giving everything I can afford this week to one of the charities, there is nothing I can do to save these people. It makes one feel weak and impotent. And every commercial seems to slam home the point how in reality, our problems are trivial, unimportant and ultimately meaningless.

One commerical for a hotel chain featuring a naked woman receiving a "mud massage" and a white, middle aged couple frolicking in a grotto complete with artificial waterfall just seemed like wretched excess. The self-serving, horn-tooting oil company commercial almost seemed to appear borderline inappropriate and tasteless.

Please pray for the people affected by this disaster.