Katrina's Devastation

On TV and on various blogs, I've been reading about and watching footage of the devastation in Mississippi, particularly in the Gulfport/Biloxi areas. I heard on TV that there were bodies everywhere and the dead may be in the hundreds. The casinos were completely wrecked, which of course is a major source of employment in that area.

Although the worst fears about New Orleans didn't come to pass, there are other places in Louisiana that have been devastated.

There is much suffering in the areas hit by Katrina and they need help. The Command Post has a whole list of links to agencies that are helping the victims of this disaster.

Update: Bene Diction posts about the frustration expressed by Metroblogging New Orleans about how the major networks don't understand the gravity of the situation. As is pointed out, this may be the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

Update 2: The waters are rising in New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana is telling everyone to get out:

A full day after the city thought it had escaped Katrina's full fury, two levees broke and spilled water into the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday, swamping an estimated 80 percent of the bowl-shaped, below-sea-level city, inundating miles and miles of homes and rendering much of New Orleans uninhabitable for weeks or months.