More on Katrina

Anne Rice on what it means to lose New Orleans...

Some visions of hell...

Louisiana:
The Independent(UK), inside the Superdome and with refugees after airlifts...

Mississippi:
The President's fake cleanup act...exposed by German TV and mentioned on Daily Kos. Translation here:

2 minutes ago the President drove past in his convoy. But what has happened in Biloxi all day long is truly unbelievable. Suddenly recovery units appeared, suddenly bulldozers were there, those hadn't been seen here all the days before, and this in an area, in which it really wouldn't be necessary to do a big clean up, because far and wide nobody lives here anymore, the people are more inland in the city. The President travels with a press baggage [big crew]. This press baggage got very beautiful pictures which are supposed to say, that the President was here and help is on the way, too. The extent of the natural disaster shocked me, but the extent of the staging is shocking me at least the same way.

...and finally some relief...