- Email from rescuer at BoingBoing.
- CNN says the people at the Superdome, who number between 12,000 and 15,000, could be there for a week. Apparently, plans to rescue these people are being made. But nothing has been revealed thus far. With rising floodwaters, it would seem to me that some action should be determined immediately.
- WDSU: Entire city will soon be underwater.
- A three-foot shark is cruising the streets.
- The word from Lieutenant Governor Landrieu: 3,000 rescued to date. Also, the helicopters that were planning to drop 3,000 pound sandbags and stop the levee never arrived. Mayor Ray Nagin extremely upset. Where were these helicopters? In Iraq, as other reports have noted?
- Amazingly, the NFL says the Saints will play at the Superdome on September 18.
- Storm Digest notes that the Gulf Coast News Missing Persons Database was hacked.
- Chris Martel observes that the same networks airing commercial-free tsunami coverage for days aren’t even covering Katrina.
- Electric Mist describes the refuge situation in Baton Rouge.
- This blog is devoted to the damage at Slidell.
- The LA Times on the prison riot.
- Bush 404 Error
- What stage is Katrina at right now? Let meterologist Jeff Masters tell you.
- Some places to donate.
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