08-30-2005, 03:50 PM
Hurricane Effects, State-by-State August30,20051:33p.m. Last updated: 1:30 p.m. EDT
Louisiana
Breaches in at least one levee allowed water from Lake Pontchartrain to inundate sections of New Orleans. Officials planned to use helicopters to drop 3,000-pound sandbags into the breach. Dozens of people rescued from roofs and attics. Canal Street was literally a canal, and water lapped at the edge of the French Quarter. The number of deaths is still unknown.
Highest wind in New Orleans estimated at about 100 mph.
Some 370,000 customers are estimated without power in southeast Louisiana; number expected to rise. New Orleans water unsafe to drink without boiling, and the city's police have made several arrests for looting.
Entire city of New Orleans, city of 485,000, ordered evacuated before storm struck. Mayor Ray Nagin estimated 80% of the city's residents left, and thousands remained in the New Orleans Superdome, where the storm ripped two holes in the vast roof; authorities forbid them to leave.
Mississippi
As many as 80 deaths possible, said Gov. Haley Barbour. That includes estimated 50 people in coastal Harrison County, with about 30 of those at one beach-side apartment complex in Biloxi.
The storm swept sailboats onto city streets in Gulfport and obliterated hundreds of waterfront homes, businesses, community landmarks and condominiums. A foot of water swamped the emergency operations center at Hancock County courthouse -- which sits 30 feet above sea level -- and the back of the courthouse collapsed.
At least 800,000 customers statewide are without power, utilities said.
Casinos that dot the coast are closed. Emergency officials had reports of water reaching the third floors of some of the barge-mounted casinos.
More than 1,600 Mississippi National Guardsmen activated.
Alabama
Two deaths have been confirmed. Flooding reached 11 feet in Mobile, matching a record set in 1917, according to National Weather Service. Water is up to the roofs of cars in downtown Mobile and bayou communities. Piers ransacked and grand homes flooded along Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay.
About 718,000 homes and businesses without power.
A major bridge over the Mobile River remains closed Tuesday; it was struck by an oil drilling platform that floated away from a shipyard.
_Quote: "She said she was in water up to her chin," Kim Stringfellow said of woman and five children brought to shelter at church in Bayou La Batre.
Georgia
One person was killed in a car accident amid stormy weather. More than 30 buildings damaged or destroyed by tornado in west Georgia's Carroll County, and nearly 25,000 customers are without power.
Tennessee
Flash flood warnings are in effect across western Tennessee, where up to four inches of rain fell. At late morning, storm remnants were centered about 25 miles south of Clarksville. About 80,000 customers were without power.
Dozens of school systems canceled classes, including Nashville-area schools, and thousands of evacuees from Mississippi and Louisiana sought shelter in Tennessee.
Kentucky
Most of Kentucky will be under a flood watch until Wednesday morning, as the state expects between three and five inches of rain from Katrina's remnants.
Florida
Eleven people died when Katrina first crossed over the state last week. No deaths are known from her more recent effects on the panhandle.
Some 77,000 customers were without power Tuesday morning in the Panhandle, hit by eastern edge of storm Monday. In South Florida, 155,262 customers were still without power Tuesday morning.
Washington, D.C.
President Bush will cut short his Texas vacation to return to Washington on Wednesday, two days earlier than planned. The Federal Emergency Management Agency sent medical teams, rescue squads and groups prepared to supply food and water into the disaster areas.
Oil Markets
Oil prices jumped by more than $3 a barrel to climb above $70 a barrel because of the shutdown of oil platforms and refineries along the Gulf Coast.
Louisiana
Breaches in at least one levee allowed water from Lake Pontchartrain to inundate sections of New Orleans. Officials planned to use helicopters to drop 3,000-pound sandbags into the breach. Dozens of people rescued from roofs and attics. Canal Street was literally a canal, and water lapped at the edge of the French Quarter. The number of deaths is still unknown.
Highest wind in New Orleans estimated at about 100 mph.
Some 370,000 customers are estimated without power in southeast Louisiana; number expected to rise. New Orleans water unsafe to drink without boiling, and the city's police have made several arrests for looting.
Entire city of New Orleans, city of 485,000, ordered evacuated before storm struck. Mayor Ray Nagin estimated 80% of the city's residents left, and thousands remained in the New Orleans Superdome, where the storm ripped two holes in the vast roof; authorities forbid them to leave.
Mississippi
As many as 80 deaths possible, said Gov. Haley Barbour. That includes estimated 50 people in coastal Harrison County, with about 30 of those at one beach-side apartment complex in Biloxi.
The storm swept sailboats onto city streets in Gulfport and obliterated hundreds of waterfront homes, businesses, community landmarks and condominiums. A foot of water swamped the emergency operations center at Hancock County courthouse -- which sits 30 feet above sea level -- and the back of the courthouse collapsed.
At least 800,000 customers statewide are without power, utilities said.
Casinos that dot the coast are closed. Emergency officials had reports of water reaching the third floors of some of the barge-mounted casinos.
More than 1,600 Mississippi National Guardsmen activated.
Alabama
Two deaths have been confirmed. Flooding reached 11 feet in Mobile, matching a record set in 1917, according to National Weather Service. Water is up to the roofs of cars in downtown Mobile and bayou communities. Piers ransacked and grand homes flooded along Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay.
About 718,000 homes and businesses without power.
A major bridge over the Mobile River remains closed Tuesday; it was struck by an oil drilling platform that floated away from a shipyard.
_Quote: "She said she was in water up to her chin," Kim Stringfellow said of woman and five children brought to shelter at church in Bayou La Batre.
Georgia
One person was killed in a car accident amid stormy weather. More than 30 buildings damaged or destroyed by tornado in west Georgia's Carroll County, and nearly 25,000 customers are without power.
Tennessee
Flash flood warnings are in effect across western Tennessee, where up to four inches of rain fell. At late morning, storm remnants were centered about 25 miles south of Clarksville. About 80,000 customers were without power.
Dozens of school systems canceled classes, including Nashville-area schools, and thousands of evacuees from Mississippi and Louisiana sought shelter in Tennessee.
Kentucky
Most of Kentucky will be under a flood watch until Wednesday morning, as the state expects between three and five inches of rain from Katrina's remnants.
Florida
Eleven people died when Katrina first crossed over the state last week. No deaths are known from her more recent effects on the panhandle.
Some 77,000 customers were without power Tuesday morning in the Panhandle, hit by eastern edge of storm Monday. In South Florida, 155,262 customers were still without power Tuesday morning.
Washington, D.C.
President Bush will cut short his Texas vacation to return to Washington on Wednesday, two days earlier than planned. The Federal Emergency Management Agency sent medical teams, rescue squads and groups prepared to supply food and water into the disaster areas.
Oil Markets
Oil prices jumped by more than $3 a barrel to climb above $70 a barrel because of the shutdown of oil platforms and refineries along the Gulf Coast.