Posted on 09/15/2005 5:16:13 AM PDT by kidd
Seventeen days after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, much of the city is still under water. In this pair of images from the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA's Terra satellite, the affected areas can clearly be seen. The top image mosaic was acquired in April and September 2000, and the bottom image was acquired September 13, 2005.
The flooded parts of the city appear dark blue, such as the golf course in the northeast corner, where there is standing water. Areas that have dried out appear light blue gray, such as the city park in the left middle. On the left side of the image, the failed 17th street canal marks a sharp boundary between flooded city to the east, and dry land to the west. The images cover an area of 10.4 x 7.1 km and are centered near 30 degrees north, 90.1 degrees west.
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Thank you, I've been looking for something like this.
Great photos
May this native Louisianian correct you? It's Boudreaux!
Cheers
I kint never spel rite
That's ok friend. Try Thibodeaux, Babineaux and Fontenot (smile)
LOL. But you let him get away with perot instead of pirogue?
No Jambalaya for you!!!
I can spell LSU but I have trouble with twolane. :-)
That was my reaction, too. Amazing.
Boy! The greens on those two golf courses are going to be a bear to putt on for a bit!
just goes to prove mother nature is one cruel mistress when she mixes with mankinds encrouchment into areas that are prone to flooding and damage from hurricanes.
I think a lot of people have to learn that if we want to live in mother natures playground we are always going to lose everytime when it comes to the big storms.... whether it be tornados, hurricanes, sunamis, earthquakes. etc... so better have a back up plan...and another... and perhaps those really danger prone areas are better kept as wildeness..
(probably get blasted for some of that commentary. but what they heck...its the truth.)
Is that yellow speck one of them buses that the mayor didn't use in the very bottom of the second picture in the middle?
I think it is. There is Ray, looking at them.
"Hi Ray. Wishing you had used them now?"
Thibodeaux I knew how to spell. Cuz ah done bin der befo.
Either that, or some Venice people. I saw this thing on TV about where they're going to build these gates between the Adriatic and the Venice Lagoon and...
Nevermind. On second thought, tell those Holland people that, when they leave New Orleans, to go to Venice.
Ain't you being the silly - it is Perot! Here we've been wondering where he went - and there he is, down in the bayou!
I can't tell the picture is too small.
I was looking for the Southern Decadence Parade. Nothing like a bunch of naked perverts marching down the mainstreet to get the life of a city back to normal!
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