Katrina Aftermath
As everyone probably knows by now, hurricane Katrina has swept through New Orleans causing mass damage and costing hundreds of lives.
Seeing some of the images of the devastation caused my thoughts are with all the people involved in the tragedy.
This major tragedy is being covered by the major news organisation, but is once again showing how the blogosphere can help get information out to people about what's going on. For example Technorati is already tracking over 40000 posts about the hurricane, and Flickr has thousands of photos listed.
Other people are trying to use Google Earth to track the devastation, by using image overlays, eg here and here. Also check out this post for before and after shots of the breeches.
The storm chasers video provided here gives some examples of the aftermath of the hurricane. The images seem more like shots from a disaster movie, and this looks like it was before the massive flooding started!
This page on wikipedia provide a good summary of the current situation, and really shows how the community editing process can work!
There is also some worrying details on the reporting, that seems to be using racist stereotypes to describe the same action: black people loot, where as white people 'find'.
Some other comments that I have found really interesting revolve around the evacuation plans, or lack of them. My initial thoughts on seeing people being rescued etc, were why didn't they evacuate when they were told, but I think these were very narrow minded views.
From reading information (eg here and here) it seems to suggest that the whole evacuation plan consisted of people getting in their cars and driving away. This is fine if you've got a car, but there are apparently 100,000 or so people in the city who don't drive, and so had no choice but to stay, or try and use the emergency shelters. It's sure to be an especially hard few days for them!
Seeing some of the images of the devastation caused my thoughts are with all the people involved in the tragedy.
This major tragedy is being covered by the major news organisation, but is once again showing how the blogosphere can help get information out to people about what's going on. For example Technorati is already tracking over 40000 posts about the hurricane, and Flickr has thousands of photos listed.
Other people are trying to use Google Earth to track the devastation, by using image overlays, eg here and here. Also check out this post for before and after shots of the breeches.
The storm chasers video provided here gives some examples of the aftermath of the hurricane. The images seem more like shots from a disaster movie, and this looks like it was before the massive flooding started!
This page on wikipedia provide a good summary of the current situation, and really shows how the community editing process can work!
There is also some worrying details on the reporting, that seems to be using racist stereotypes to describe the same action: black people loot, where as white people 'find'.
Some other comments that I have found really interesting revolve around the evacuation plans, or lack of them. My initial thoughts on seeing people being rescued etc, were why didn't they evacuate when they were told, but I think these were very narrow minded views.
From reading information (eg here and here) it seems to suggest that the whole evacuation plan consisted of people getting in their cars and driving away. This is fine if you've got a car, but there are apparently 100,000 or so people in the city who don't drive, and so had no choice but to stay, or try and use the emergency shelters. It's sure to be an especially hard few days for them!
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