{"id":223,"date":"2005-08-30T17:49:57","date_gmt":"2005-08-30T22:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/?p=223"},"modified":"2005-08-30T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2005-08-30T23:07:09","slug":"and-its-not-just-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/30\/and-its-not-just-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"And it&#8217;s not just New Orleans."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naturally, New Orleans is getting lots of attention. But the Mississippi Gulf Coast has been nearly erased by Katrina. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/\">WLBT TV posted a video<\/a> shot from a helicopter this morning. The word &#8220;devastation&#8221; doesn&#8217;t seem to cover it, really. <\/p>\n<p>If you have a moment, you should watch what television news coverage couldn&#8217;t capture when it happened.<\/p>\n<p>As bad as the winds were, it was the incredible storm surge from Katrina pulled in from the gulf that managed to lift a couple of the floating casinos, take them across the beach, across highway 90, and drop on top of other buildings. (Well, any buildings that still existed.)<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Loy (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brendanloy.com\/\">The Irish Trojan&#8217;s Blog<\/a>) posted a link to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/americas\/4197200.stm#\">BBC-hosted story and video<\/a> that will break your heart. And if it doesn&#8217;t break your heart in two, I wouldn&#8217;t want to know you.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Katrina\" rel=\"tag\">Katrina<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Hurricane\" rel=\"tag\">Hurricane<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/%22new%20orleans%22\"  rel=\"tag\">New Orleans<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/Biloxi\"  rel=\"tag\">Biloxi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naturally, New Orleans is getting lots of attention. But the Mississippi Gulf Coast has been nearly erased by Katrina. WLBT TV posted a video shot from a helicopter this morning. The word &#8220;devastation&#8221; doesn&#8217;t seem to cover it, really. If you have a moment, you should watch what television news coverage couldn&#8217;t capture when it <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/30\/and-its-not-just-new-orleans\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}