Re: Things about Katrina and family

ntantiques wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Have spent the last few days trying to find flooding info for my niece,
> a Tulane Med student who left her home on S. Murat for TX just ahead of
> the storm with her 2 cats and not much more. She's doing volunteer
> triage at the AstroDome and I think it's helping her to help others
> right now.
>
> The very best 8/31/05 aerial view map I've found is at:
>
> http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/katrina/new_orleans_msi_aug31_2005_dg.jpg
>
> Much bigger and clearer than the CNN version - takes a long time to
> load, but shows much greater detail.
>
> I've also been checking in at:
>
> http://www.scipionus.com/
>
> They have one of those expandable google maps with markers (like our
> nifty RFC Map) and I've found the flood reports in the markers helpful
> in trying to interpret water depth on the digital globe map.
>
> Hope this helps and that your news is good.
>
> Nancy T

Nancy:

Thanks. I'd seen the digital globe mab but not the scipionus.com map.
There are a few comments about my neighborhood (the few blocks just
south of the Fair Grounds racetrack) I live practically right in
between one comment which says "house obstensibly fine, water in
streets" and another that says "4' water in streets, store looted"
Hopefully I have a little less that 4 feet of water. Four feet would be
just about floorboard level of my house. Overall, my neighborhood
doesn't look too bad considering what happened.

I'm glad you neice is OK.

Thanks,
-Mike

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