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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

UPDATE links and blogs about the flood

From Movie Guy at Calculated Risk [Thanks to JJ], here is a lengthy compilation of websites and blogs that have information about the flood, New Orleans, and other related analysis.

Remember that Katrina dumped a LOT of rain on the Mississippi valley and its tributaries.

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/calculatedrisk/112543552918384298/

Hurricane Katrina Aftermath

"The already dire situation in New Orleans has taken a turn for the worse this morning as the breach in the 17th Street Canal Levee is now 200 feet wide and slowly flooding the entire city. In short, the worst-case scenario may be occurring as flood waters completely fill the below sea-level bowl that is New Orleans, potentially turning Lake Pontchartrain and the city into one big toxic lake." -- 12:05 PM, Tuesday, 30 August 2005, Tom Kirkendall of Houston's Clear Thinkers

New Orleans:

New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau
Update
** Excellent details on current status.

The Irish Trojan's Blog
http://www.brendanloy.com/
backup link:
http://66.237.232.84/

SciGuy
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/

Houston's Clear Thinkers
http://blog.kir.com/

WMTV.com New Orleans updates
http://www.wmtw.com/weather/4913354/detail.html

The Times-Picayune
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/

The Weather Channel -
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lmrfc/fop/
** Do check this out.

Louisiana Weather Warnings
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/la/warnings.html

Mississippi Weather Warnings
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/ms/warnings.html

National Weather Service
http://nws.noaa.gov/

Maps - West to East:

New Orleans Maps

Katrina & Louisianna Petroleum Resources Map
http://www.pannexresearch.com/katrina/LAOil.gif
* Couresty of Oil Drum/Econbrowser/Calculated Risk (see links below)

New Orleans Evacuation Map
http://www.dotd.state.la.us/maps/Web_ContraFlow.jpg

http://www.southeastroads.com/new_orleans.html

Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
http://www.southeastroads.com/lpc.html

Area East of New Orleans Map
http://photos1.blogger.com/img/243/2888/640/mapp.jpg

Gulf Coast MS-AL Map
http://www.southeastroads.com/i-010a_ms.html

Mississippi Map
http://www.sitesatlas.com/Maps/Maps/MS1.htm

Mississippi Highways
http://www.southeastroads.com/mississippi.html

Mississippi Gulf Coast Highways
http://www.southeastroads.com/mississippi_gulf_coast.html

Alabama Map
http://www.sitesatlas.com/Maps/Maps/AL1.htm

Mobile, Alabama Map
http://www.cofairhope.com/images...ges/%20areamap.gif

Fuel Supply Analysis:

Calculated Risk
http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/

Econobrowser
http://www.econbrowser.com/

Oil Drum
http://theoildrum.blogspot.com/

General Economic Analysis:

Full Disclosure
http://blogs.chron.com/fulldisclosure/

Insurance Journal
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/

Government Agencies and Red Cross:

Alabama Emergency Management Agency news releases
http://disaster.ema.alabama.gov/

Alabama Emergency Road Closure Information
http://www.dot.state.al.us/closures/

Florida Division of Emergency Management
http://www.floridadisaster.org/

Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness news releases
http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/

Louisiana Road Closure Information
http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/evacinfo/rdclosureindex.htm

Mississippi Emergency Management Agency news releases
http://www.msema.org/newsreleases/news.htm

Mississippi Road Closure Information
http://www.gomdot.com/

Tennessee Emergency Management Agency
http://www.tnema.org/


FEMA
http://www.fema.gov/news/recentnews.fema

AMERICAN RED CROSS
http://www.redcross.org/news/

 
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