Katrina: Day 0

Landfall day was not very eventful for me.

I got up, went to work. I had this idea I could listen to streaming radio on the internet to find out what was going on with Katrina. But, all the stations were off the air. That didn’t seem good. Yahoo Headline News had nothing of use. I couldn’t watch TV as I was at work. I finally found streaming WWL-TV, which had just relocated to LSU for their broadcasts. I was pleased to find the coverage but the announcers had nothing to say. They seemed to find the lack of dire reports from the field to be good news, and honestly did not seem to realize the lack of any reports might be the sign of a problem.

They aggravated me by calling the French Quarter the lowest point in the city. My husband called me up in late afternoon and said he had looked at the news briefly and heard the roof was peeling off the Superdome. I was shaken by that as I knew there were many people inside and imagined the Superdome coming down like the WTC had. I was also frustrated by the lack of content of the news thus far. It was now late in the day and I went home to finally get glued onto CNN.

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