Category Archives: Current Events
Google Maps of Katrina Damage
September 10, 2005 – 11:35 am
Check this out: go to Google Maps and search for “New Orleans.” Click “Satellite” to see the city before hurricane Katrina, then click “Katrina” to view the flooding. I think the amount of water is amazing.
Prescient National Geographic
September 3, 2005 – 11:58 am
In October 2004, the National Geographic Magazine described what would happen were a decent-sized hurricane to strike New Orleans: disaster, not surprisingly. More interesting to me is the National Geographic‘s explanation of why that disaster was becoming increasingly likely: Yet just as the risks of a killer storm are rising, the city’s natural defenses are […]
Katrina Communication Cut-off
September 2, 2005 – 4:18 pm
A colleague from New Orleans said yesterday that his sister’s cell phone from that area stopped working, even though she’s in New York. But her text-messaging does work, which apparently isn’t uncommon: Cellular phone providers said their service was severely limited, at best, in New Orleans and along the Mississippi coast, and they encouraged people […]