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The depth map has been updated to Monday, September 12 http://mapper.cctechnol.com/floodmap.php.

Jack’s House: 6-7 feet
Paul, Jamie, Brent, David L’s House: 3-4 feet
Ashley’s House: 6-7 feet
David’s House: 0 feet
Marnie’s House: 0 feet

City Park: 4 feet
Superdome: 0 feet

Stephen Gordon of Lakeview took these pictures on September 8, 2005. This is Jack’s neighborhood.

The pictures were originally posted in St. Dominic’s forums, but they were a little slow to load, so I have copied them over to our photo gallery here:

http://104.236.91.241/gallery/katrina_lakeview.

Stephen, whoever you are, I apologize for taking your pictures. If don’t want them up here, let me know.

Jack left this morning to head back to New Orleans. We assume his house is still underwater, but Waterford has set up temporary housing for employees on the site of the plant. They said that trailers go to families with children first, and there was a brief mention of tents, as well.

I told him that if they set him up in a tent, to come back to Altanta. You don’t want to sleep in a tent in Taft, LA in September.

He’s loaded up with a generator, de-humidifier, and a new set of cordless power tools that he purchased here in Atlanta as well. We don’t know when he’s going to be able to get to his house, but he’s prepared for when they let him back in.

Here’s an interesting read on Blackwater USA, the private “security” force used in Iraq, which is now being used in New Orleans.

http://www.kathryncramer.com/kathryn_cramer/2005/09/blackwater_blac.html

Here’s a neat little map that shows water levels in the city overlayed on a Google Map. Unfortunately, the water depth hasn’t been updated since Tuesday, 6 September.

Barbara Bush: Things Working Out “Very Well” for Poor Evacuees from New Orleans NEW YORK Accompanying her husband, former President George H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, “This is working very well for them.”

The former First Lady’s remarks were aired this evening on National Public Radio’s “Marketplace” program.

Then she added: “What I’m hearing is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.

“And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this–this [she chuckles slightly]is working very well for them.”

http://www.discourse.net/archives/2005/09/the_modern_let_them_eat_cake_moment.html

Here’s the mp3: barbarabush.mp3.