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Saturday, September 10
Five Days With Katrina

I've been keenly following the disaster which Katrina inflicted upon the Gulf Coast States, but you always feel a little isolated when you watch news reports... The message is always a whole lot more powerful and remarkable when it's reported by someone who's actually there, who doesn't hype it up or spin it this way or that - which is why I found the photo gallery "Five Days with Katrina", all uploaded by somebody called Alvaro, which documents the week before, during and after Katrina hit New Orleans. Each slide (photo) is accompanied with a comment, and if you follow them through chronologically, they tell a very powerful story seen from the eyes of an individual who once lived in what could now be considered the world's largest submerged city.

Check the gallery out: Five Days With Katrina - it's on KodakGallery.com, it requires a login to view, but it only takes about 20 seconds to make a new username, and it's well, WELL worth it. When I signed up, I got ten free prints, and I'm thinking of ordering some of the photos from the aforementioned photo gallery.

Powerful stuff. Also, DirectNIC.com is a webhosting company situated in New Orleans, and they've been struggling - but just about managing so far - to keep their business (and power and internet connection, to boot!) up and running through this disaster... See their photos and recountings of events on the DirectNIC.com web site (and the web site of the company's owner, sigmund.biz).

Oh, and in case you missed out on this last item of business too, Google Maps has added updated New Orleans aerial photos, and you can flick back and forth between the older ones and the most recent ones, showing the full extent of the devastation. Compelling stuff.



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