To help put Hurricane Katrina's distructive impact into visual perspective, Google Maps offers new views of New Orleans flooding and devastation with some aerial photos taken last Wednesday, August 31st, at 10 a.m. One can get a deeper sense of the magnitude of Katrina devastation, seeing endless square miles of submerged city, block after flooded block, through these satellite views.
Click here for Katrina satellite views.
One can toggle between "before and after" satellite modes, street maps and an hybrid satellite mode of the "before" images with a superimposed map overlay. One can zoom in close enough to discern details such as individual cars and trees, although individual people are too small to make out.
It's worth a tour. I am numbed and haunted by the magnitude of destruction and untold human loss, via this aerial virtual fly-over, as well as the stark reality of the associated implications and logistics yet to unfold.
Kudos to Kim Dow and countless other fine citizens who are directly spearheading the massive relief efforts underway.
Garth
Garth Herrick 
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