Katrina plus 20

There's little to add after what's been written here at this blog over the past 15 years.  link to old posts

However, the Big Picture Science podcast had a decent series this summer on the topic, worth a listen:

• Hurricane Comms – kind of important, and near & dear to me
• Hurricane Season – mostly lessons learned
• Katrina and the River – the Mississippi, of course

It still galls that so much reporting (somewhat including the above-linked podcasts) is so New Orleans-centric when the actual ground zero was some 50 miles to the east, but urban areas seem to be all the news media cares about, so there it is.  Here, have a couple of pictures from the areas that shall not be reported on:

Downtown Bay St. Louis.  Notice the manholes sticking up towards what was ground level on Beach Boulevard.  It's not evident from the perspective here, but the original road level was about 25' above sea level.  BTW, the  pilings in the background were part of the train bridge across the mouth of the bay, and you know how solidly those things are built.

Here, this used to be (and now is again) a neighborhood, as well as the bridge into town.

Here's the Washington Street neighborhood.  The surf debris line can be seen across the horizontal middle of the picture.  Flooding extended well inland from the top of this picture for several miles.

Here's one more, taken from the overpass of I-10 and Hwy 603, about ten miles inland:

Similar pictures can be found from across the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and even as far as Panhandle Florida.

ps: Nice article in the Sea Coast Echo marking today's anniversary.  RTWT.