New Orleans under water (aerial photos)

CNN ^ | 9/1/05

[finnman69]

Much of New Orleans was flooded after Hurricane Katrina broke levees. About 70 percent of the city is below sea level. Click on the satellite image, taken August 31, 2005, to see sections of the city in closer detail.

Water appears green in the photograph. To compare dry areas to flooded ones, take a look at the middle box in the left column: the left side of that section is brown and dry, while the right side (west of a levee breach) is green and under water.

[finnman69]

Go to the CNN site to click the maps and open them to large images.

[finnman69]

All of the images from the 9 square grid above, from top to bottom, left to right. Starting upper left.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/1.1.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/2.1.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/3.1.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/1.2.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/2.2.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/3.2.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/1.3.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/2.3.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/3.3.html

[buwaya]

It looks like the French quarter and the dowtown high-rises (all along the Mississippi riverbank) are pretty much dry.

It looks like the low-rise residential areas are worst-off.

[buwaya]

It looks like the French quarter and the dowtown high-rises (all along the Mississippi riverbank) are pretty much dry.

It looks like the low-rise residential areas are worst-off.

[princess leah]

Can someone show where the airport is located?

[afraidfortherepublic]

Do you know how to find a Sat photo of Harahan?

[RockinRight]

Is the western line of water right at the border with Metairie, or is that further west?

[RichInOC]

That's out past the left side of the photo.

[oldtimer2]

Type googleearth into your browser. you need at least windows 2000

[janetjanet998]

anyone have photos of the rest of SE LA.?

[palmer]

There's a smaller airport (lakefront) in the lake in the top middle box. The main airport SW of the city is not visible in these shots.

[RichInOC]

...and I think the 17th Street Canal, where they had the big break, is the city limit at that point, so yeah. Maybe they did and I haven't seen anything about it, but Jefferson Parish doesn't seem to have had big levee problems like New Orleans did. Interesting.

[the Deejay]

It does appear the old section faired
much better. Namely, the buildings
that were built in the early 1800's.

Must be on higher ground. And the
buildings didn't get major damage.

[Norman Conquest]

Go to MAPS.GOOGLE.COM and enter "Harahan, LA 70123."

You can toggle between map view and sat photo.

[JLS]

The Louis B. Armstrong Airport nee Moissant Field, ie the commercial aviation airport for New Orleans is out in Metarie and is west of the picturd area just south of I-10.

[fnord]

are you from NO?

I have been wondering why everybody at the Dome didn't just walk across that bridge and onto the dry west bank. is it impassible?

[finnman69]

the CNN site has the levee break points superimposed on their map.

[kipita]

Thanks! I've been looking for something like this for days.

[alfa6]

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