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Katrina's effects, at a glance
02/09/2005 15:23 - (SA)
LOUISIANA:
At least two breaches in levees allowed water from Lake Pontchartrain to inundate sections of New Orleans. Dozens of people rescued from roofs and attics.
Highest wind in New Orleans estimated at about 160km/h.
About 370 000 customers estimated without power in southeast Louisiana; number expected to rise. New Orleans water unsafe to drink without boiling.
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.
About 9 000 took shelter in New Orleans Superdome arena, where storm ripped two holes in the vast roof.
New Orleans police made several arrests for looting.
MISSISSIPPI:
As many as 80 deaths possible, said governor Haley Barbour. That includes estimated 50 people in coastal Harrison County, with about 30 of those at one beach-side apartment complex in Biloxi.
At least 450 000 customers without power.
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.
Quote: "The devastation down there is just enormous," Barbour on NBC's Today.
ALABAMA:
Two deaths.
More than a half-million homes and businesses without power.
Flooding reached 3.3m in Mobile, matching record set in 1917, according to National Weather Service. Water up to roofs of cars in downtown Mobile and bayou communities. Piers ransacked and grand homes flooded along Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay.
Major bridge over the Mobile River closed after 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 as stormy weather moved through the western part of the state.
About 6 300 customers were without power on Tuesday morning.
More than 30 buildings were damaged or destroyed in west Georgia's Carroll County.
TENNESSEE:
Flash flood warnings were in effect across western Tennessee, where up to 7cm of rain fell on Monday night.
About 75 000 customers were without power.
Dozens of school systems cancelled classes, including Nashville-area schools.
Thousands of evacuees from Mississippi and Louisiana sought shelter in Tennessee. No evacuations in Tennessee.
KENTUCKY:
Most of Kentucky was under a flood watch until Wednesday morning.
FLORIDA:
Deaths: 11, according to state tally on South Florida strike last week.
77 000 customers were without power on Tuesday morning in the Panhandle, hit by eastern edge of storm on Monday. In South Florida, 155 262 customers still without power on Tuesday morning.
- AP
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