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Ophelia, Now A Tropical Storm, Exits After Dumping More Than A Foot Of Rain In Parts Of NC: Ophelia’s large eye passed just south of the Cape Hatteras area this afternoon after battering the North Carolina coast for a second day and cutting power to about 70,000 Wednesday. Live Streaming Video: WNCN-TV 17, Raleigh, Weather Plus | Online Coverage: Damage assessment begins | The News & Observer | WNCT-TV 9, Greenville | From Raleigh: WRAL-TV 5 | WNCN-TV 17 | From Wilmington: WECT-TV 6 | WWAY-TV 3 | NHC advisory | Blogs: CapitalWeather & WeatherMatrix (More listed in the left column)

Ophelia Weather Images: Image slideshows from WRAL-TV, WWAY-TV and WNCN-TV | Weather and webcam images for North Carolina Coast and other cities | Storm precipitation totals from the National Weather Service and AccuWeather | NWS radar, radar loop and short-range radar | Forecast track models and 5-day track | Satellite and loop | IR sat. and loop | Interactive hurricane tracker for all 2004-05 storms | NWS current watches/warnings map | U.S. satellite/radar image

NWS storm total precipitation. Links to live version

Katrina Update: New EPA samples show N.O. floodwaters still toxic; City’s air quality OK | Gov. Blanco takes responsibility for ‘failures’ | Dedicated doctors fight to keep charity hospital alive | At least 50 evacuees have died in Texas | NYPD officers who worked in N.O.: It was worse than on TV | Nursing home owners charged in storm deaths | From Mississippi: Schooners survive | Commercial space is now a hot ticket | Water, sewer back online in most of Biloxi area | Vinh and John look out for one another | Contractor mistakenly destroys old oaks | $500M in relief set for Red Cross

Other Weather News: Rain forecast for most of Texas on Thursday: It hasn’t rained at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport since Aug. 15.

One dead as storms hit Wisconsin

Quake News: Seismic slip begins in Pacific Northwest | Major quake could be worse than Katrina | Centuries of pent up stress caused biggest quake | Current earthquakes are listed in the left column of this page, and maps, etc. are in the right column of our National/International page

Space News: From SpaceWeather.com: A coronal mass ejection (CME) is racing toward Earth and it could spark a severe geomagnetic storm when it arrives — perhaps tonight (Sept. 14 and 15). People everywhere should watch for auroras. Aurora image gallery

After being the most-visited WXnation city page for 18 straight days (a certain record), New Orleans is no longer No. 1. For the first time since Aug. 26, another city page — ironically one created just two days ago for the NC coast — takes the top spot, thanks to Hurricane Ophelia:

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Wednesday: 1. Wilmington/NC Coast 2. New Orleans 3. Raleigh 4. Charlotte 5. Toronto … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Slow-Moving Hurricane Ophelia Pounds North Carolina Coast, Flooding Reported: Cat. 1 Ophelia has already dropped more than 12 inches of rain on parts of NC near Wilmington. Storm precipitation totals from National Weather Service and AccuWeather | Stories from The News & Observer; WECT-TV 6, Wilmington; WWAY-TV 3, Wilmington; WNCN-TV 17, Raleigh; MSNBC | More stories | Live Streaming Video: WRAL-TV 5, Raleigh (Includes optional live radar feed) | Weather Plus, WNCN-TV 17, Raleigh | Latest track from the National Hurricane Center: Landfall is expected near Cape Lookout, NC, tonight; Strengthening possible

Katrina’s Aftermath: Death toll in Louisiana climbs past 400 | Mississippi death toll at 218 | Deadliest hurricanes list | Mayor: Parts of New Orleans could reopen soon: The areas that could be opened include the French Quarter, Uptown and the Central Business District | New Orleans out of money, mayor says | N.O. flood map | Miss. coverage by town | Live streaming video of TV news coverage, images, lost-and-found, and blog coverage links

Other Weather News: Severe stroms are moving across parts of Texas and Oklahoma this evening: Watches/warnings and radar… Additional images

Minnesota/Wisconsin storms: Residents in several communities cleaning up after night of storms

Severe storms are possible today from the South Central Plains to the Ohio Valley. NWS current watches/warnings and live U.S. satellite/radar image (links to local weather/webcam images)

How vulnerable is Denver area to flooding?

Vancouver Island moves west: “We think that it’s one of these events that will trigger the big mega-thrust earthquake.” As always, current earthquake data is in the left column of this page

From Bermuda: Doppler radar weather tower officially opened

Space News: Space passenger Olsen to pull his own weight

New WXnation City Pages In LA, NC: You may have noticed two recent city page additions: Baton Rouge, LA, last week, and Wilmington, NC/ NC Coast yesterday, bringing the total city pages count to 112. Many of the webcams and weather images previously in the New Orleans and Raleigh pages are now in the new pages.

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Tuesday: 1. New Orleans 2. Raleigh 3. Columbia 4. Kansas City 5. Minneapolis/St. Paul … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Ophelia Becomes Hurricane Again: Winds are at 75 mph, making Ophelia a Category 1 hurricane. Space station video of Ophelia airs on NASA TV | More stories | The latest track from the National Hurricane Center suggests possible landfall in N.C. by Wednesday morning | More details and images in the red column to the right

Katrina Updates: Twin sisters, 98, reunite in Fort Worth (Emotional video inside) | Bush: Gov’t didn’t do job right, I take responsibility | St. Bernard Parish residents receive grim news Monday | Medical center closes at New Orleans airport | N.O. tourism official predicts return of tourists in 6 months | What we know: Parish by parish | Miss. coverage: clickable map | Bush rejects race criticism in hurricane response | Can human intervention defuse hurricanes? | Live streaming video of TV news coverage, images, lost-and-found, and blog coverage links

Other Weather News: Heavy rains raise flood warnings in Minnesota

Rebirth of Galveston

Tornadoes touch down in Miami area

DWP: Workers trigger outage by connecting wrong wires

Space News: Scientists detect farthest known space blast

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Monday: 1. New Orleans 2. Minneapolis/St. Paul 3. Columbia 4. Vancouver 5. Los Angeles … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Breaking News: Large part of L.A. hit with power outages … L.A. weather/webcam images

Ophelia May Hit North Carolina: Meandering Category 1 Ophelia, currently a tropical storm with 70 mph maximum sustained winds, continues to drift south of North Carolina. The latest track from the National Hurricane Center suggests possible landfall in N.C. by Wednesday night | Stories: Ophelia stationary, still threatening | N.C. residents keep eye on Ophelia | Ophelia may pound the coast of New England by Thursday | Ophelia Images: East Coast weather/webcams for North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia | More in red column

Katrina Updates: Louisiana’s death toll at 279 | Death toll climbs to 162 in Mississippi | FEMA Director Michael Brown resigns | Crews work to identify New Orleans dead| Bush joins recovery leaders in N.O.| Katrina: Failure at every turn | Katrina recovery stops to mark Sept. 11 | NYC emergency workers spend 9/11 in N.O. | Officials: Much of N.O. will be drained by October | Girl back with family almost 2 weeks after being separated | Steady buildup to a complete meltdown | N.O. mayor’s family living in Dallas for 6 months | Telethon reaches viewers in 100 countries | Very latest Katrina stories

Help Storm Victims: Red Cross seeks 40,000 more volunteers | American Red Cross: 1-800-HELP-NOW | Salvation Army | Catholic Charities | FEMA | SPCA | Others

Resources: Live Streaming Video: WDSU-TV 6, New Orleans | WWL-TV 4, New Orleans | WTOK-TV 11, Meridian, MS (Down center column) | More live streaming video and audio links | Images: About 200 photos of downtown N.O. | Draining New Orleans interactive map | MSNBC | Slideshow 2 (Opens new window) | USAToday.com | Yahoo! News photos | S. Miss. Sun Herald (Look for “Photos” section in center column) | Satellite images collections and clickable regions | Many images from WWL-TV (Center column) | More images | Lost-And-Found: Post/see photos, names of missing | Times-Picayune Missing persons database | WWL-TV looking for forum | Microsoft quickly builds database to help locate hurricane evacuees: KatrinaSafe.org and KatrinaSafe.com | About.com big list (right column) | More offers/lost-and-found resources | Updates/Blogs: Survival of New Orleans Blog | New Orleans Times-Picayune Blog | WWL-TV blog | S. Miss. Sun Herald blog | MSNBC blog | Daily Nightly | More blog coverage | Katrina timeline (Updated to Sept. 10)

Weird News: U.S. weatherman says Russian inventors caused Hurricane Katrina (Link courtesy CapitalWeather.com). I’ve heard Scott Stevens on Coast To Coast AM with George Noory a couple of times. His Web site, where conspiracy abounds, is WeatherWars.info … Wonder if he saw the made-for-TV movie “Oil Storm” three months ago on FX

Other News: Retreating glaciers worrying Greenlanders

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Sunday: 1. New Orleans 2. San Antonio 3. Raleigh 4. Miami 5. New York City … on Saturday: 1. New Orleans 2. Jacksonville 3. San Antonio 4. Miami 5. Raleigh … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

9/11 Remembered: by MSNBC, WNBC | Cams

Hurricane Ophelia May Hit North Carolina: Ophelia, a hurricane again after weakening to a tropical storm twice, has 80 mph winds; Latest track shows it making landfall along the East Coast, possibly in North Carolina, by Tuesday | Stories: Ophelia menaces Carolinas | N.C. emergency personnel brace for landfall | Images and more in red column

Katrina’s Aftermath: Search broadens for bodies in New Orleans | Poll: Most Americans think New Orleans should move | Live downtown N.O. webcam feed at Survival of New Orleans Blog | From Mississippi: News by region: clickable map | To help people is the way of the world, volunteer says | Three-way battle brewing between insurance companies, policy holders, feds | Ideal weather for recovery efforts continues | For Katrina survivors, a visit to FEMA Web site can be daunting | Fatigue setting in for rescuers | Doctors often are Katrina’s heroes | Dallas speeds evacuee housing programs | Estimates of hurricane damage climb: Now to $125 billion in economic damage | Technology succeeds, system fails in New Orleans links to “Washing away” 2002 report | Hurricane simulation predicted 61,290 dead

Other Weather News: Four prep golfers hit by lightning, 1 critical | Floods kill five in Vietnam, thousands evacuated | Flash floods in London

Weather Media News: AccuWeather to launch weather channels in top TV markets | Increased TV and Web ratings may make the Weather Channel an attractive fit for a larger media firm: More details

Space News: Hubble future is cloudier after Katrina | NASA deputy administrator resigns

Hawaii scientists to study tsunami warning

World Of Webcams: Logitech introduces QuickCam Orbit MP, QuickCam Pro 5000 performance webcams

Ophelia Strengthens To Hurricane Again, East Coast Landfall By Early Next Week?: Hurricane Ophelia’s maximum sustained winds are back up to 75 mph; latest track shows it making landfall along East Coast, possibly South Carolina, by Monday or Tuesday | Story

Katrina Updates: Death toll may be far less than expected in New Orleans | Plans to reopen French Quarter in 90 days; scaled-down Mardi Gras | Mississippi: Jackson Co. coroner releases initial list of victims | Some holdouts: ‘I’ve had enough’ | FEMA Chief Michael Brown removed from Katrina relief | Additional $51.8 billion OK’d for federal aid package | Stay out: Florida subdivision bans evacuees | Duplication rife in online relief efforts

Other Weather News: Tornado confirmed in Iowa | Storms dump hail, rain on plains

“The Weather Man” movie starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine is set to hit theaters in October

Space News & Images: Massive solar flare disrupts communications. More at SpaceWeather.com

Great computer background image candidates at Astronomy Picture of the Day: Moon River; and photo of aurora posted in SpaceWeather.com’s Aurora Gallery

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Friday (Top 3 remains unchanged for third straight day): 1. New Orleans 2. Jacksonville 3. Orlando 4. Baton Rouge 5. Vancouver … and on Thursday: 1. New Orleans 2. Jacksonville 3. Orlando 4. Baton Rouge 5. Tampa … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Already A Hurricane: Hurricane Ophelia, off Florida’s coast, becomes 3rd hurricane currently in Atlantic: Expected to begin moving Friday | No letup in tropics: Only six more storms until Greek letters will be used to designate storms, beginning with Alpha | Get the latest details and images in the right-column red box

Katrina’s Aftermath Updates: New Orleans readies 25,000 body bags | Charity, university hospitals will not reopen | Cheney, Gonzales tour disaster area | OCEAN SPRINGS: Man loses everything, everyone | BILOXI: Katrina claims 5,014 structures | GULFPORT: Bar provides community for hurricane survivors | A week in the ruins of Miss. | Finger-pointing | Report says Katrina effect won’t last long | Conditions at New Orleans’ WWL-TV | 50 to 100 TV and radio stations still off air | NBA stars set for hurricane relief game Sunday | Stars offer talent, voices for hurricane victims Friday night | Opinion from a New Orleanian who has also maintained a Mississippi Gulf Coast home: New Orleans victims ‘unprepared, un-led’ locally

Bermuda keeps eye on Hurricane Nate

California earthquake could be the next Katrina

Space News: Space Weather Warning; Powerful solar flare erupts, Katrina communications may have been affected: Forecasters at the NOAA Space Environment Center in Boulder, Colo., Wednesday observed one of the largest solar flares on record at 1:40 p.m. EDT Wednesday

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Wednesday: 1. New Orleans 2. Jacksonville 3. Orlando 4. West Palm Beach 5. Baton Rouge … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Tropical Storm Ophelia Forms: May meander off Florida’s coast through the weekend, could become a minimal hurricane; Up to a foot of rain possible in Jacksonville area | More in red box

Katrina’s Aftermath: Police step up New Orleans evacuation | U.S. to give $2,000 debit cards to Katrina victims | Online scams emerge | Superdome may be torn down | Rescuers told to avoid even skin contact with floodwaters | EPA tests find dangers lurking in water | What’s in the New Orleans water?: Microbiologist: total sewage bacteria in a water sample from N.O. 45,000 times what would be considered safe for swimming in a pond or a lake.

Image courtesy NOAA: Satellite loop as Hurricane Katrina made landfall Aug. 29. Links to large version | More images: NOAA summary

S. Mississippi Stories: EDITORIAL: Not one more death | Hero: Biloxi, Miss., eighth grader helps family, friends as neighborhood floods | Logistical misunderstanding diverts FEMA trucks | Official death toll creeps up while rumors spike | In Katrina’s wake, Mississippi must mull land-based casinos

Look Back: NOAA summary of Hurricane Katrina | Stats | WXnation Wire Katrina timeline | Katrina not first time response is criticized Hugo over again

Nation Helps: Bush praises Americans’ aid to hurricane victims | katrinahousing.org: Housing opportunities for evacuees | Illinois prepares to host evacuees | New York expecting first hurricane evacuees this week | Hurricane help from Michigan heads south | WeatherBug expands support of Katrina relief efforts, sends teams to Gulf Coast for on-site meteorological support and to restore nation’s damaged weather network with NOAA: Press release

Media: ‘Historic week’ at MSNBC.com | Observations gleaned from the Weather Channel

Other Weather News: Storms damage Fargo area

Lightning strikes mother, daughter traveling on turnpike

California’s ‘Big One’ would be distinct: Quake, hurricane consequences vary

Nine dead after Asian tropical storm

Space News: No shuttle flights for a year? | Comet-busting mission puzzles scientists | NASA TV broadcasts arrival of space station resupply ship

Wisconsin aurora image posted in Sept. 2005 Aurora Gallery

Astronomy Picture of the Day: View from Husband Hill on Mars

Other News: Remains of old ship found in San Francisco

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Tuesday: 1. New Orleans 2. West Palm Beach 3. Orlando 4. Miami 5. Minneapolis … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Tropical System Threatens Florida: Stretch of Florida’s coast under tropical storm warning: This system, expected to become Tropical Storm Ophelia by Wednesday, could dump 15 inches of rain on parts of Florida. While most forecast models have the storm moving toward Jacksonville or the Carolinas, one track takes it across Florida, into the Gulf of Mexico and eventually into the New Orleans area. It’s still way to early to tell exactly where this system is headed. Get the latest updates and track in the right-column red box

Katrina Updates: More than 182,000 people rescued, and other stats | Bush, Congress promise probes of Katrina response | Water receding noticeably in New Orleans | Levee break fixed | Live streaming video from WWL-TV 4, N.O. Live streaming video from WDSU-TV 6, New Orleans | More live streaming links

Katrina image slideshow | Satellite images of Gulf Coast damage … More images in Saturday’s post | Housing opportunities for evacuees | More offers/lost-and-found | Brian Williams: Now it can be told: Notes on the eve of destruction | Blog coverage | Katrina timeline

Disabled Mississippi residents face uncertain future on the road

Other Weather News: Tropical Storm Nate forms in Atlantic: Forecast to edge toward Bermuda … Updates to Nate and Maria are in the right-column red box

NASA/NOAA announce major weather forecasting advancement

Storms move into Minneapolis/St. Paul area… National Weather Service radar
| Watches/warnings map | More weather and webcam images in our Minneapolis page

Kansas’ other tornado season

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Monday: 1. New Orleans 2. Orlando 3. Miami 4. Fargo 5. Mobile … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Many of the news links I have provided here over the past couple of weeks have been repeatedly updated, and no longer match headlines in my posts. The following timeline incorporates news stories that, as of this morning, remain posted as listed below. For some days, I’ve copied key text written in this blog. Dates link to original blog entries

Tuesday, Aug. 23:

Tropical Depression Twelve forms over the Bahamas, within 24 hours, becomes Tropical Storm Katrina: Advisory archive

Wednesday, Aug. 24:

Tropical Storm Katrina heads for Florida: Meteorologists say Katrina could become a hurricane by landfall and it could dump a foot of rain or more in South Florida.

Thursday, Aug. 25:

Hurricane Katrina Makes Landfall [in S. Florida]; Flooding Biggest Threat

11 p.m. EDT Update: Katrina, now 20 miles NW of Homestead, made landfall at about 7 p.m. EDT between Hallandale Beach and N. Miami Beach as a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph maximum sustained winds. Port Everglades reported wind gusts to 92 mph.

Friday, Aug. 26:

Flooding, Damage As Katrina Slams S. Florida: Widespread flooding and storm damage reported. The National Hurricane Center calls it a “significant heavy rainfall event.” | Katrina S. Florida images

• Last updated 8/26 6:15 a.m. — Four dead as Katrina slams South Florida
• Last updated 8/26 10:18 a.m. — Katrina strengthens; 4 dead, 5 missing

Saturday, Aug. 27:

Katrina To Strike As Major Hurricane, Takes Aim At New Orleans: Bush declares state of emergency for La., Coast evacuates | Hurricane Katrina, now a Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph winds, is expected to strengthen to a Cat. 4 or possibly a 5 with winds above 155 mph by the time it hits the Gulf Coast somewhere in or just east of the New Orleans area by early Monday. A direct hit on New Orleans would almost certainly bring a storm surge of 15 to 18 feet and catastrophic damage…

Sunday, Aug. 28: 9 a.m.: New Orleans mayor orders mandatory evacuation

Dire — but eerily prophetic — warning posted on the National Weather Service warnings page Sunday morning:

• Posted 8/28 10:11 a.m. — Contents of NOAA’s “Devastating Damage Expected” warning
• Last updated 8/28 10:11 a.m. — New Orleans mayor orders mandatory evacuation in face of Katrina
• Last updated 8/28 5:24 p.m. — For Mississippi, Katrina prompts memories of Camille

Monday, Aug. 29: 10 p.m.: Miss. official: At least 50 people dead in Harrison County

National Hurricane Center: Katrina, a Cat. 4 with 140 mph maximum sustained winds is expected to bring a storm surge 18 to 22 feet above normal and local storm surge flooding as high as 28 feet and 5-10 inches of rain/isolated 15 inches. The worst is expected east of New Orleans into Mississippi and Alabama

Hurricane Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds at 6:10 a.m. Monday CDT near Buras, Miss., and again as a Cat. 3 with 125 mph winds at 10 a.m. CDT on the La./Miss. border.

• Last updated 8/29 9:26 a.m. — Superdome roof ripped as Katrina nears New Orleans
• Last updated 8/29 4:41 p.m. — Katrina damage blocks phone calls to stricken area

Tuesday, Aug. 30: 1 p.m.: Hundreds feared dead in Biloxi, Miss.: city spokesman; 3 p.m.: La. governor says all of New Orleans must be evacuated

Governor Evacuates Flooded New Orleans; 100 Dead In Miss.: Rescuers pushed aside the dead to reach the living in a race against time and rising waters … Broken levees fix fails after water pours from Lake Pontchartrain into streets of New Orleans — now almost completely flooded. Estimated 3,000 rooftop rescues by Tuesday; Death toll at 100 in one Miss. county … N.O. Mayor: Hundreds, if not thousands, of people may still be stuck on roofs, in attics | Dozens die at Biloxi, Miss., beach apartment | Mayor of Biloxi: “This is our tsunami” | Looting begins | At least 40,000 homes reportedly flooded in St. Bernard Parish, east of New Orleans | Almost 3 million without power, 900,000 in Miss. | Entire New Orleans neighborhoods are under water up to rooflines; Downtown Mobile is flooded; boats have crashed into buildings; A shelter to thousands, Superdome suffers damage; Major roof damage reported in Gulfport, Miss.; Storm surge recorded at 22 feet in Bay St. Louis; Power to downtown New Orleans may not be restored for months

• Last updated 8/30 4:16 a.m. — Report: At least 50 dead in coastal Mississippi
• Last updated 8/30 4:21 a.m. — Storm’s small turn brings big trouble to Miss.
• Last updated 8/30 10:53 a.m. — Downtown Mobile flooded
• Last updated 8/30 11:03 a.m. — Superdome is a refuge, but miserable at the same time
• Last updated 8/30 11:46 a.m. — Bush declares state of emergency for La., Coast evacuates
• Last updated 8/30 3:57 p.m. — New Orleans mayor tells residents to leave town
• Last updated 8/30 4:15 p.m. — Survivors tell of desperate struggles to survive
• Last updated 8/30 11:01 p.m. — Nagin: Entire city will soon be underwater: Problems escalate to ‘another level’

Wednesday, Aug. 31: 8 a.m.: Announcement: Superdome evacuees to be moved to Houston Astrodome; 1 p.m.: Federal officials declare public health emergency for Gulf Coast

Mayor: Thousands May Be Dead In New Orleans: Gov. Orders New Orleans Abandoned; Navy ships en route as crisis deepens for mostly-flooded city | Mayor: It could take months to get residents home | New Orleans Mayor “very upset” that attempt to fix the breach in the levee at the 17th Street canal failed, said the challenges that the city is facing have “escalated to another level.” | Rescuers struggle to reach Katrina survivors: Death toll expected to be in the hundreds | 3 die inside hot, leaking Superdome arena shelter: rising water means site needs evacuation … Mississippi Search-And-Rescue Effort continues amid death toll above 100, debris and big damage … Louisiana governor calls for prayer

• Last updated 8/31 8:01 a.m. — New Orleans outlook bleak; 100 dead in Miss.
• Last updated 8/31 1:09 p.m. — Navy sending ships to Gulf Coast to provide relief
• Last updated 8/31 2:24 p.m. — Biloxi is ‘completely flattened’ by Katrina

Thursday, Sept. 1:

• Last updated 9/1 11:54 a.m. — Extreme weather photographers capture Katrina’s wrath
• Last updated 9/1 12:23 p.m. — Miss. town practically wiped off the map
• Last updated 9/1 9:27 p.m. — Texas agrees to accept 50,000 more from La.

Friday, Sept. 2: 8 a.m.: Bush: Katrina relief efforts “not acceptable”; 5 p.m.: Bus carrying evacuees overturns, one dies

• Last updated 9/2 2:23 a.m. — New Orleans slips into anarchy
• Last updated 9/2 10:30 a.m. — National Guard pours into New Orleans, Mississippi
• Last updated 9/2 3:34 p.m. — Mississippi hospital offers hope to survivors
• Last updated 9/2 6:48 p.m. — Bush admits Katrina response ‘Not enough’
• Last updated 9/2 11:22 p.m. — Pumping water out of New Orleans could take a month

Saturday, Sept. 3: 9 a.m.: Bush to send 7,000+ troops to Gulf Coast; 5 p.m.: Last evacuees leave Superdome

• Last updated 9/3 12:56 a.m. — Evacuations complete at New Orleans hospitals
• Last updated 9/3 1:26 p.m. — Katrina damages New Orleans landmarks
• Last updated 9/3 1:52 p.m. — Gas woes, hurricane mar Alabama Labor Day
• Last updated 9/3 3:13 p.m. — Coast Guard rescues 9,500 in Gulf Coast
• Last updated 9/3 7:38 p.m. — Superdome evacuation completed

Sunday, Sept. 4:

• Last updated 9/4 12:51 a.m. — New Orleans left to the dead and dying
• Last updated 9/4 10:48 a.m. — Shelter in Biloxi closed after 20 fall ill
• Last updated 9/4 1:22 p.m. — Kuwait donates $500 million in oil products for Katrina
• Last updated 9/4 2:55 p.m. — In Mississippi, a feeling of neglect: Some survivors say officials, media too focused on New Orleans
• Last updated 9/4 10:28 p.m. — Rice defends Bush against racism charges

Monday, Sept. 5:

• Last updated 9/5 4:07 p.m. — Bush makes second trip to battered Gulf Coast
• Last updated 9/5 9:45 p.m. — Deputy chief: New Orleans ‘a hazard’

Tuesday, Sept. 6:

• Last updated 9/6 7:55 a.m. — Levee break fixed

Wednesday, Sept. 7:

• Last updated 9/7 12:02 a.m. — Mayor OKs forced evacuations: Flood waters receded inch by inch Tuesday
• Last updated 9/7 10:21 p.m. — Evacuees can get $2,000 per household from FEMA

Thursday, Sept. 8:

• Last updated 9/8 6:07 a.m. — Floodwaters recede, but ‘There’s a long way to go’
• Last updated 9/8 2:53 p.m. — EPA tests find dangers lurking in flood waters
• Last updated 9/8 8:45 p.m. — Cheney tours Gulf disaster areas
• Last updated 9/8 — BILOXI: Katrina claims 5,014 structures

Friday, Sept. 9:

• Last updated 9/9 12:15 a.m. — Additional $51.8 billion OK’d for federal aid package
• Last updated 9/9 6:42 a.m. — New Orleans holdouts wavering; City readies 25,000 body bags
• Last updated 9/9 4:21 p.m. — Boss pulls FEMA Chief Michael Brown off Katrina relief

Saturday, Sept. 10:

• Last updated 9/10 — Two more counties release names as death toll climbs to 162
• Last updated 9/10 2:15 p.m. — NYC emergency workers to spend 9/11 in New Orleans

Kartina’s Aftermath: Mayor warns 10,000 may be dead | Deputy chief: New Orleans ‘completely destroyed’ | ‘Weather nerd’ in Indiana sent warning to mayor | Residents re-enter parish | Satellite images provide overhead view … direct link to images [Many other Katrina images in Sat. post] | Bush Sr., Clinton announce hurricane aid fund | Thousands bussed, airlifted from N.O. | Bush returns | Rice responds | Kuwait donates $500 million | New Orleans Times-Picayune needs web journalists | Hurricane evacuees begin arriving in California and Michigan, just to name a couple | From Mississippi: Filling the void | Shelter in Biloxi closed after 20 fall ill | Public health threats increase

New Storm Watch & Worries: 15th tropical depression forms SSW of Bermuda … Track | Tropical system looms off coast of Florida | Forecasters keep wary eye on Bahamas weather | Gulf barrier islands now more vulnerable | Disaster planners: Hurricane hit would wreck Tampa | Experts: Too many people in nature’s way | Why live on the shore? | S.F. prepares for Katrina-level catastrophe

More Katrina Stories: Saturday night in the Big Easy takes on a different tone | Katrina damages New Orleans landmarks | Katrina conjures memories of 1900 storm | La. levees not designed for Category 4 hurricanes | 200 N.O. officers walked away

Streaming Video Of Live Coverage: WWL-TV 4, New Orleans stream | WSDU-TV 6, New Orleans stream | WTOK-TV 11, Meridian, MS stream (Down center column) | Weather Plus: WTVJ-TV 6, Miami | Live Audio: Radio-Locator (news/talk stations best bet) | Police scanner links | Also try New Orleans’ clear-channel AM station WWL-AM 870 over the air at night east of the Rockies… Not online now but may resume streaming: WKRG-TV 5, Mobile, AL stream | WAPT-TV 16, Jackson stream | WJTV-TV 12, Jackson, MS stream | NBC News stream (Windows Media Player, opens new window)

Offers For Help & Lost-And-Found: Comprehensive list from About.com | List of offers | Looking For… and safe | Missing persons sites list | Messages from survivors | ‘Searching for’ forum | Find pets | HHS health care professionals/relief personnel worker page | Beware: Scammers hit Web

Blog News Updates: WWL-TV | NOLA.com | S. Miss. Sun Herald | MSNBC Katrina blog | NBC Daily Nightly | CBS Disaster Blog | CapitalWeather.com | Irish Trojan’s blog | More blog links in Saturday’s entry … Online Coverage: WWL-TV 4, New Orleans | WDSU-TV 6, New Orleans | WLOX-TV 13, Biloxi | USA Today | MSNBC | FOX News | CNN | NASA | NOAA aerial study NOLA.com | S. Miss. Sun Herald | Al.com | Latest stories

Other Weather News: New hurricane forms in Atlantic, no threat to land … More on Hurricane Maria in the right column red box | Wall of rain, hail in central Minnesota opens door to flooding, damage | Heavy rain floods more than 500 Tokyo homes

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Sunday: 1. New Orleans 2. Minneapolis/St. Paul 3. Vancouver 4. West Palm Beach 5. Mobile … and on Saturday: 1. New Orleans 2. Minneapolis/St. Paul 3. Houston 4. Miami 5. Orlando … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Image courtesy NOAA: Aug. 31 aerial image of New Orleans. Links to large version | More aerial images

New Orleans Stories: Superdome evacuation completed | City left to the dead and dying | 17,000 new soldiers; Bush to return to region Monday | Coast Guard rescues 9,500 | Survivors tell of desperate struggles to survive | Warehouses burn near French Quarter | Jefferson Parish residents may return Monday | Center helps reunite parents with their children | N.O. hospitals evacuated | Pumping water out could take a month Blog News Updates: WWL-TV | NOLA.com | S. Miss. Sun Herald | NBC Daily Nightly | CBS Disaster Blog | Survival of N.O.
WXnation Editorial: ‘Spirit found’ & Sept. 3 Podcast

Mississippi & Alabama Stories: In Mississippi, a feeling of neglect: Some survivors feel federal officials, media are too focused on New Orleans | Faith survives the storm | Waveland, Miss. residents: Rebuild or move on? | Power slowly restored to some regions of Miss. | Bush sees Katrina damage in Miss. | Gas woes, hurricane mar Alabama Labor Day More Stories: A Sequel to Katrina is all too thinkable | Katrina chronology | Profile of New Orleans, before Katrina | Panhandle beaches weather Katrina well | Web site traffic soars (with numbers) … WWL-TV stats | Forecast: Hurricane season far from over | Live benefit includes appeals — and unscripted criticism

Image courtesy NOAA: Aug. 30 aerial image of destruction in Pascagoula, Miss. Links to large version | More aerial images

New Images: USA Today image slideshows | MSNBC (opens new window) and My Way | New satellite images over N.O. neighborhoods and other areas | Before & after satellite photo | Before & after satellite images | Flooded areas map | Real-time & archived satellite imagery [More images in previous posts ... look for "Images" sections]

More Blog Coverage: Capital Weather | WX-MAN’s Perspective | Irish Trojan’s Blog | Weather.com | WeatherBlog | Lost Remote Message Boards: Eastern U.S. Weather Forum | TalkWeather.com | Storm2K | Weather.com Forum

Other Weather News: Tropical Storm Maria grows to near hurricane strength; no threat to land … The latest updates on Maria can be found in the right-column red box.

WBZ-TV’s top weather dog told to take a walk

Space News: Aurora alert for Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Friday: 1. New Orleans 2. Orlando 3. Mobile 4. Houston 5. San Antonio … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

I repeatedly came across a “Page cannot be found” message in my Internet browser a couple of nights ago, and it was deeply comforting. The Salvation Army’s online donations page for the victims of Hurricane Katrina was overloaded by high traffic, and after many attempts to get in, I gave up trying. By the next morning, I was pleased to find, instead of the one donation link provided the night before, the organization’s site had added four links, directing people to five different Web servers. Each was scrambling to keep up with a surge of donations. I tried the third server link first, assuming the two above links would return that familiar “Page cannot be found” message, but none of them were accessible, and it warmed my heart. So many people were trying to help.

We are witnessing what may be the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. New Orleans is suffering on so many different levels, and several Mississippi and Alabama neighborhoods lie in ruins. Frustrations are growing over the government’s response time, and many argue that recent successes have come with failures that go well beyond the levee breaks, as it has long been known what a storm of Katrina’s size could do to a city built mostly below sea level.

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Relief Supplies Arrive In New Orleans; Bus Carrying Evacuees Overturns In La.: At least 147 dead in Mississippi | Bush admits Katrina response ‘not enough’, tours devastated gulf states | Offers of help as thousands offer shelter … List of offers | Survivor, family happy to be alive | Mississippi hospital offers hope to survivors | Full MSNBC Coverage: Blasts, fires [video]; Fear of returning | Biloxi is ‘completely flattened’ | Another Miss. town practically wiped off the map: Beleaguered survivors scavenge what they can | Video: Extreme weather photographers capture Katrina’s wrath | Up to 25,000 evacuees heading to San Antonio and Dallas/Fort Worth

Hurricane Katrina stronger than Andrew at landfall: Hurricane Katrina was the third-most intense hurricane to ever hit the United States since reliable records began in 1851, according to the National Weather Service. | Katrina may be retired from storm names | Weather Plus all over NBC map while Katrina overwhelmed weather Web sites

Excellent local coverage from NOLA.com, WWL-TV 4, New Orleans, WDSU-TV 6, New Orleans and S. Miss. Sun Herald; as well as national coverage from MSNBC and USA Today

Much more on Katrina and the storm’s aftermath — images, blog and online coverage — is in yesterday’s post below…

Tropical Depression Lee no threat to U.S.

Magnitude-4.8 earthquake felt in San Diego | Cluster of quakes in area … Live quake feed is in the left column of this page. Additional resources are in the National/International page

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Thursday: 1. New Orleans 2. Mobile 3. Houston 4. Kansas City 5. Orlando … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.