PBS Tonight

[wxmann_91]

8 PM EST: NOVA special on Hurricane Katrina
9 PM EST: FRONTLINE documentary on Katrina

For more details:
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/show.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/orleans/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/storm/

Unfortunately, it seems that most of the coverage will be on NOLA again. Let's hope that they have some more Mississippi, Alabama, and rural southeastern Louisiana coverage than what I've seen on other shows.

[wobblehead]

I can tell you that damage here along the Alabama coast was extensive especially on Dauphin Island where 200 homes were completely destroyed on the west end and the geography was changed dramatically. Bayou La Batre, a small fishing town, received extensive damage especially the shrimping fleet. Shrimp boats washed into the woods, homes destroyed and seafood processing plants destroyed basically ruining the already suffering seafood industry there. Compared to the NOLA stories I guess this pales in comparison however when you see it first hand it is very heart wrenching.

[HURAKAN]

NOLA will always be the main topic because of its importance, culturally and economically speaking. But it's true that we would like to see how the people in rural areas are doing after the storm.

[JTD]

Thanks '91. I will definitely watch this.

Frontline has some of the best documentaries on TV. They are riveting. This may be the best Hurricane Katrina documentary yet.

[sunny]

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but the NOVA show, from what I've read, will focus on New Orleans. It's entitlted "Storm that drowned a City", and will also focus on the rebuilding of New Orlenas.

[Derek Ortt]

a question for those in Alabama,

was Katrina worse than Ivan for the Alabama coastline?

[rockyman]

a question for those in Alabama,

was Katrina worse than Ivan for the Alabama coastline?

Much worse here on Dauphin Island's West End (about 95% destruction on far West End)...and Bayou La Batre/Coden (southern Mobile County) were totally underwater...very sad...Baldwin County (between Mobile and Pensacola) had much less damage from Katrina.

Personally...from Ivan we lost a deck, stairs and shingles...From Katrina we had a house crash into our home and pretty much wipe ours out. The house that crashed into ours had survived Camille, Frederic, Elena, Georges, and Ivan. Many businesses on the Island were destroyed by Katrina and have not reopened...the Ferry linking Mobile and Baldwin Counties is supposed to come back on line on January 4th...so that should help our economy a little.

[f5]

Katrina finished what Ivan missed period.makes me wonder what Mobile would look like if they gotten the kind of surge biloxi had

[thunderchief]

If USS Alabama dragged her moorings from the surge on the edge of katrina I wonder where the ship would end up durring a direct hit. Surely it would smash through the I10 bridge and maybe wash up in the shallows of the northern bay.

[mike815]

Yeah that would be real bad didnt think of that.

[wxmann_91]

For those who are watching it right now, how is it?

[CentralFlGal]

They interviewed a woman from Bay St Louis briefly and showed a quick flash of direct hurricane surge devastation, then went back to the levy problem in NO.

[Cookiely]

"who would have thought a hundred thousand people would stay behind with a cat 5 bearing down"