Satellite shots: Before, and After

[Windy]

Here is a before and after sat shot of Lousiana and Mississippi:

Before

After

[NateFLA]

I created before/after shot in photoshop of the NO area...

[jasons2k]

OH MY G__! Speechless. Totally speechless. I'm sick now. I think it's over for N.O.

[djtil]

whats the blue smoky stuff?

[NateFLA]

whats the blue smoky stuff?

I was wondering the same thing. It's real because it casts a shadow, but I can't explain it.

[djtil]

i think the thoughts from some is that its water, but the zoomed out shots show it everywhere....

i dont think these shots show much of anything.

[djtil]

I think it's over for N.O.

its bad but not THAT bad..why is it "over"...whats your thought process on that?

the city is still standing, the levee system is still intact minus 1 or 2 breaches that will be fixed, the water will be pumped out, the electrical grid rebuilt..

its a mess, and it will take time to clean up and billions of dollars but these continual "NOLA CANT BE REBUILT, ITS OVER" thoughts just dont jive with reality.

[NateFLA]

i dont think these shots show much of anything.

Besides the fact that the city of NO turned from a nice green grassy color to a blueish underwater haze? Personally, I think its sickening! Its awful.

[djtil]

Besides the fact that the city of NO turned from a nice green grassy color to a blueish underwater haze? Personally, I think its sickening! Its awful.

thats what we are discussing...that blue hazy smoke is everywhere....look at the zoomed out shots......i think its just clouds...maybe different heat content, or height as the white clouds.....the blue hazy "water" is even over the ocean in the before shots.

[NateFLA]

Besides the fact that the city of NO turned from a nice green grassy color to a blueish underwater haze? Personally, I think its sickening! Its awful.

thats what we are discussing...that blue hazy smoke is everywhere....look at the zoomed out shots.

You can still see the ground... look at this page for reference... http://maps.google.com/maps?q=New+Orlea ... 8399&hl=en

I think you may be confusing water with that light blue cloud. NO Is now underwater... it IS blue. The clouds are light cyan blue.

[kajunwetha]

Is this a total photoshop of what you think it looks like?? Is this off of real sat photos?

[djtil]

this is hogwash and shows nothing, disregard.

[NateFLA]

Those are absolutely completely real pics. I went to the two sat images listed at the top of this page, opened them in photoshop, matched the soom and position, and made two identical selections. They are crops of the exact same parts of the image placed on top of each other with absolutely no modifications from the original. Thats what it is really like.

[NateFLA]

this is hogwash and shows nothing, disregard.

What in the world are you talking about?! Did you ever look at the sat pics before/after the tsunami?! They told an amazing/sad story. This is the exact same. Sorry you don't like it, but its NOT hogwash.

[cswitwer]

Look at the difference in the shape of Lake Pontchartrain - it is significant! (If the pics are indeed accurate before and after.)

[Matt-hurricanewatcher]

The Mayor of New orleans said that the city will shortly be 100 percent underwater. In areas its 20 feet or more. In plus its under sea level. There is holes opening up every where by reports. In the damage is as bad to the east of there closer to where the eye went in. Please this was far worst then Andrew which only covered maybe 20 miles. This thing was huge in every word.

This thing has nearly covered every thing in a Major city. In theres likely to be many more death. So please stop saying that this was nothing in everything is ok. Believe me its not!!!

[PurdueWx80]

This most certainly does show much of NO under water - where the city was before is green, now much of it appears nearly the same color as the lake. You can see the flooding of the rivers all over the Gulf Coast in the larger images. The hazy cyan "smoke" people are referring to is high level cloud cover - more than likely clouds made up of ice, which are coded to appear as blue in this RGB image.

[djtil]

thats what what is really like? lake ponch water was black before and is blue now?

and again..the blue murky cloudy stuff over new orleans is found in the lower right of the before shot out in the ocean...its just clouds.....

[NCHurricane]

this is hogwash and shows nothing, disregard.

NASA thought that they showed something.

[jasons2k]

I think it's over for N.O.

its bad but not THAT bad..why is it "over"...whats your thought process on that?

the city is still standing, the levee system is still intact minus 1 or 2 breaches that will be fixed, the water will be pumped out, the electrical grid rebuilt..

its a mess, and it will take time to clean up and billions of dollars but these continual "NOLA CANT BE REBUILT, ITS OVER" thoughts just dont jive with reality.

Look Very Closely. Look at the bright green MS River Levee to the Delta. See all the marsh/land around it on both sides? Now look at; it's blue (not the clouds but the water) all the way to the river. The coastline is virtually eradicated. The city bleeds into it (or it into the city). Look closely at the shape of the lake. It has changed. There are many more wetlands now; and the city is within that zone, except for the west bank, for now.