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May 13, 2006

Flood animation

The Times Picayune has put together a great flash animation that shows minute-by-minute how and why each section of the city flooded. It's quite dramatic, and shows a lot of things that I wasn't aware of, for instance that by 8:30 AM the morning of the storm, water already covered all of Plaquemines, N.O. East, St. Bernard and the Lower Nine and was already leaking into the city on the west side of the Industrial Canal. The Lakeview breach, which is the first one that was in the news so much, actually occurred towards the end of the event, and even then, it was ripped open before 10:00am on the 29th.

This link allows you to step through the animation and get text descriptions of each event on the timeline.

This link plays it in one continuous display.

Absolutely fascinating.

Posted by ray at May 13, 2006 10:41 PM |
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wow. And the link for the flood depths. Amazing.

Posted by: darkneuro [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 14, 2006 10:30 AM

Glad this is making it's way online. I've watched it many times today and I agree, it shows a lot that I wasn't aware of. The number of failed levee sections is astounding.

Posted by: erika at May 15, 2006 1:00 AM

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