Hurricane Gustav

This past Labour Day weekend, we found ourselves glued to the Hurricane Gustav coverage in New Orleans. We found a local New Orleans TV station that was broadcasting on the web so they had an excellent play by play of the event.

We were constantly referring to this map as the coverage
mentioned levees in these areas.


Repaired 17th street canal
This was the scene of a serious levee breach during Katrina. The levees held
and no weakening or failures were detected according
the Army Corp of Engineers.


Our pic of the industrial canal taken in March.
We watched nervously as the waves from the storm surge pounded the levees but they held.

This is what the Decatur Street looked like when we were there.


Decatour street hours before the hurricane hit taken by a live blogger
who stayed in his house. This picture is across the street from the one we took.


He also took "a shot of Bourbon" Street