Hurricane Katrina Redux

UPDATE: Also check out this NASA satellite retrospective of their best images from the storm.

After writing my initial look back at Hurricane Katrina earlier this week, a couple items have come to the surface that I wanted to point out. First, we have done a news story and a couple of videos (one of which is shown below) for the 5-year retrospective. Also here's a new graphic that we've made:

Second, I read the chapters on Katrina in Mike Smith's book "Warnings." Because the disaster, and the blame game, took so long to transpire, and it's been so long, I didn't really have in my head where the personnel failures had taken place. Mike has some great insight into that and it was a good refresher. But don't take my word for it, here's a portion of a review by R&B Blog:

Next, the National Weather Service in New Orleans has created a nice interactive map showing damage photos, make sure to check it out.

Doug Kiesling and Chris Collura are storm chasers who were there for Katrina and her aftermath. Their video "Hurricane Katrina, 2005 Special" is streaming all weekend on ChaserTV.com. It has some of the best footage from the storm and the destruction afterwards -- much more than you'll see from the major news sources on-air. It truly brings back the extreme experience of the storm.