Effects of Katrina by State - AP

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Katrina's effects, at a glance

8/30/2005, 12:46 p.m. CT

The Associated Press

(AP) — Hurricane Katrina's effects, at a glance:

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. Water lapped at the edge of the French Quarter.

_Unknown number of deaths.

_Highest wind in New Orleans estimated at about 100 mph.

_Some 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 percent of the city's residents left.

_Thousands remained in New Orleans Superdome, where storm ripped two holes in the vast roof; authorities forbid them to leave.

_New Orleans police made several arrests for looting.

_Quote: "At first light, the devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming." — Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco.

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.

_At least 800,000 customers statewide 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.

_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.

_Quote: "There's just nothing left. It's never going to be the same. It's over." — Jack Crochet, 56, of Biloxi, looking at wreckage of his house near the beach.

ALABAMA:

_Two deaths.

_About 718,000 homes and businesses without power.

_Flooding reached 11 feet 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 remained 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 death; person killed in a car accident amid stormy weather.

_Nearly 25,000 customers without power.

_More than 30 buildings damaged or destroyed by tornado in west Georgia's Carroll County.

TENNESSEE:

_Flash flood warnings were in effect across western Tennessee, where up to 4 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.

_Thousands of evacuees from Mississippi and Louisiana sought shelter in Tennessee.

KENTUCKY:

_Rainfall of 3 to 5 inches forecast from Katrina's remnants.

_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 Tuesday morning in the Panhandle, hit by eastern edge of storm Monday. In South Florida, 155,262 customers 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

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"While appearing to the children of men as a great physician who can heal all their maladies, he will bring disease and disaster, until populous cities are reduced to ruin and desolation. Even now he is at work. In accidents and calamities by sea and by land, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, cyclones , tidal waves, and earthquakes, in every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is exercising his power. He sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both man and beast."

Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, pp. 589-590 (boldface mine)