STUNNING animation of New Orleans flooding on nola.com! (Flash required)

[Brotherjohn]

http://www.nola.com/katrina/graphics/flashflood.swf

This is the best timeline -- the best anything -- I've seen that relates what happened to N.O. before and after Katrina. The Times Picayune really deserved the Pulitzer they received.

The wind and lightining sound effects are a bit much, but people in New orleans rightfully keep a dark sense of humor about them these days. The houseboat at the Louisiana Swamp exhibit at the Audubon Zoo has a blue roof, abandoned refrigerator, MREs and an X on the wall (marking the number of "bodies"; thankfully there were none).

[uppityperson]

1. Saw this last night, good animation, clearly shows how flood happened.

I like the wind and lightening sound effects though, am a connoisseur of dark humor.

[Greyhound]

2. This gets a K & R from the hound contingent.

I think I have, for the first time, an accurate idea of just how bad it was.

:kick:

[shireen]

3. Hurricane season starts in 2 weeks.

Maybe the Bush administration hasn't been doing more to clean up because they're hoping the next hurricane will do it for them.
Bastards.