Information on how to help folks in the affected areas can be found here. Offer your own suggestions as well.

Tropical Depression #13 has been declassified earlier in the day, and is no longer being tracked by the Hurricane Center.

Hurricane Katrina is now a Tropical Storm, and as it moves up through the middle of the US dropping heavy rain and gusty winds, the survey and cleanup of the area.

This was the fourth strongest storm to make US landfall, behind Camille, the Labor Day hurricane in the Keys, and Andrew, based on pressure at landfall.

As the aftermath is realized (and I don't think we will know much until tomorrow or later in the week) Storm Surge was a huge problem east of the eye, and winds were strong enough to tear up some structures.

There are portions of New Orleans that were flooded, mainly on the eastern side and Lower 9th ward. Some are on roofs, trees, etc.

Points East, Gulfport, major storm surge, Mobile Bay, downtown flooded by surge...

If you have any doubts to how bad this system was compared to other majors I'd ask you to take a look at the video that Mark Sudduth has put up on hurricanetrack.com.

Also New Orleans is in bigger trouble than many first thought.

See this video clip of Mayor Nagin's (of New Orleans) midnight report Here (wwltv)

More to come as we learn it.

(We and Skeetobite are looking for feedback on maps, let us know here)

Event Related Links
General Links
Report Katrina conditions in your area/read other's reports at this link (registration not required).
Color Sat of Gulf
RAMSDIS high speed visible Floater of Storms

Graphic showing elevations of New Orleans

Emergency Management/County info
Gulf Coast Storm Alert Network
FloridaDisaster.org - Florida Emergency Management
Mississippi Emer. Management
State of Florida Division of Emergency Management/floridadisaster.org
Louisiana Emergency Management

Video/Audio Links
NOAA Weather Radio out of New Orleans
Hurricane City - Live Audio and Video
HurricaneTrack/Mark Sudduth HIRT Team

Television/Radio
WWL TV 4 (CBS Affiliate in New Orleans) - KHOU is streaming WWL TV as well HERE
ABC 26 TV (ABC Affiliate in New Orleans)
WDSU Channel 6 (NBC Affiliate New Orleans)
Fox 8 (New Orleans)
WTIX 690 News Radio
WWL 870 News Radio
WTOK 11 / Missippii Alabama ABC Affiliate -- Jason Kelly is assisting Operations Here [url=mms://a1558.l1207832090.c12078.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1558/12078/v0001/reflector:32090Video stream from here[/url]
Hurricane Now - Video reports from former CNN hurrican reporter Jeff Flock
Weathervine.com
Joseph Johnston's Mobile Bay Webcam
WKRG 5 in Mobile/Pensacola
WPMI Channel 15 from Mobile

Other
NOLA - Everything New Orleans
South Mississippi Sun Herald
Al.com - everything Alabama - Katrina Photos

-- Looking for more Video/Audio links for the approach areas, please let us know if you have any links/information!

Katrina

Google Map plot of Katrina
Hurricane Camille and Hurricane Katrina plotted on a google map

Visible Floater Satellite of Katrina
Water Vapor Floater of Katrina
Visible Satellite Floater of Katrina with storm track overlays
Animated model plots of Katrina
Spaghetti Model Plot of Katrina from Colorado State

Mobile, AL Long Range Radar
New Orleans, LA Long Range Radar

Forecast Discussions for (Show All Locations):
Miami, Key West, New Orleans, Mobile

Former TD#13

Animated model plots of Former TD#13

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