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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.
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