I love Hurricane Season, especially on The Weather Channel, the last few days has been enthralling TV watching time, mainly because The Weather Channel has psychotic meteorologists like Jim Cantore and Stephanie Abrams who go above and beyond the call of whatever duty meteorologists have…
Yes, the destruction Katrina caused is unbelieveable, but watching Jim Cantore holed up in Gulfport, MS is gripping TV, I remember last year when Frances or Ivan blew in and Stephanie Abrams was somewhere in Florida reporting on it and she had to be physically held down by her camera crew so she wouldn’t blow away with each gust…
So most of New Orleans in under water now after one of their levees broke.
No deaths have been officially confirmed in Louisiana, but New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said “many, many reports” were coming from rescuers about bodies floating in high waters that covered most of the city.
“My heart is heavy tonight. I don’t have any good news to really share,” he told television station WWL Monday night.
“The city of New Orleans is in a state of devastation. We probably have 80 percent of our city under water, with some sections of our city the water is as deep as 20 feet. We still have many of our residents on roofs,” he said. “Both airports are under water.”
“We have to start the process of rebuilding the city,” he added, noting that most of the city’s drinking water was contaminated, power could be out for up to six weeks and that a major bridge was wiped out.
Suburbs were also hit hard, with one reportedly seeing 40,000 homes under water.
Their guessing the total damage will run into the tens of billions, it could take anywhere up to a year to get New Orleans back to something resembling normality and due to the shutdown of oil production in the Gulf, gas prices could very well breach the $3 mark… So good times ahead all round.