Tuesday, August 30, 2005
The Wet Bank Guide -- All The News I Can Find About NOLA
I've been aggregating news from NOLA for numerous online forums I participate in over the last two days. I'm going to concentrate my efforts here instead, to help the new Katrina diaspora keep up with what's happening to our city.
First, the cable news networks are behind on the story, and are often flatly contradicted by local sources. I recommend those (and will list them in a separate post) if you prefer to go straight to the source.
I named this blog for my old newspaper, the West Bank Guide, where I once slaved as an ink-stained wretch in the 1980s. I also worked in New Orleans East and St. Bernard Parish for the same outfit, and the pictures I see of those areas are just devastating.
I can't just go back to work at my home in Fargo, N.D., and I don't know exactly what do to. The best I can think of is to gather as much info as I can for the family and friends huddled in various hotels and friend's homes around the South on the things we care about in NOLA.
The entire east side of Greater NOLA is The Wet Bank. As you can plainly see from the widely distributed aerial photography on cable news, there is catastrophic flooding from Kenner though St. Bernard/East Plaquemines, but particularly east of the Industrial Canal.
If you're not form NOLA, go to maps.google.com and lookup New Orleans, LA. In the initial display, the Industrial Canal is the unlabeled north-south channel running from Lakefront Airport to the Mississippi River, with the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) running east out of it.
One last note for this initial post: friends and compatriots, please send any confirmed information including your sourcing to my email and I will incorporate it here. Please include an approximate time and station for broadcast information.
First, the cable news networks are behind on the story, and are often flatly contradicted by local sources. I recommend those (and will list them in a separate post) if you prefer to go straight to the source.
I named this blog for my old newspaper, the West Bank Guide, where I once slaved as an ink-stained wretch in the 1980s. I also worked in New Orleans East and St. Bernard Parish for the same outfit, and the pictures I see of those areas are just devastating.
I can't just go back to work at my home in Fargo, N.D., and I don't know exactly what do to. The best I can think of is to gather as much info as I can for the family and friends huddled in various hotels and friend's homes around the South on the things we care about in NOLA.
The entire east side of Greater NOLA is The Wet Bank. As you can plainly see from the widely distributed aerial photography on cable news, there is catastrophic flooding from Kenner though St. Bernard/East Plaquemines, but particularly east of the Industrial Canal.
If you're not form NOLA, go to maps.google.com and lookup New Orleans, LA. In the initial display, the Industrial Canal is the unlabeled north-south channel running from Lakefront Airport to the Mississippi River, with the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO) running east out of it.
One last note for this initial post: friends and compatriots, please send any confirmed information including your sourcing to my email and I will incorporate it here. Please include an approximate time and station for broadcast information.
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I saw that you said you worked for the West Bank Guide. I was told that I could probably find an obit in that paper for my father, but this is the only link I found that was close. Do you know how I can find an obit that might have been printed in this paper in 1986?
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