I've lived most of my life in Florida and have lived through many, many hurricanes. From Andrew to Wilma and all of them in-between. After the storm passes the news starts airing pictures of destroyed buildings non-stop for a week or two.
This is very different and strange. The media isn't even cutting away from their non-stop coverage of Covid to take a second to show what happened in New Orleans. I've seen some images, but from what my friends who live near there are saying is that it's wide spread flooding, many many buildings destroyed, and endless looting near the cities - but the MSM isn't sharing that.
My company has an office just outside New Orleans and we've been told it was totally flattened and they don't even have an estimate of when power will be on or when it will be fixed. A local employee went to check on it this morning and he couldn't even get close with his Jeep, he tried walking but the road was flooded and impassible.
The only stories I'm hearing about this all are interviews with the hospital where they ask nurses if they're prepared for an influx of wounded with the hospital at full capacity from Covid.
My boyfriend rode it out and have some friends still there. The main transmission unit that powers all of New Orleans fell into the river. That’s why they think there isn’t going to be power for three weeks. The levees held, which is amazing. There is some flooding but it happened more on the Laplace area and some areas that typically flood. Something like 32 barges got loose and that created a ton of damage along the river. Grand isle, which is the are people were most concerned about, had a fly over (can’t get to them right now) and people had their thumbs up. The looting did start but that’s expected. Lots of roofs (hospitals, news stations, etc) flew off. Right now, everyone is figuring out damage mode. If interested, you can stream wwol radio or wdsu live.
EDIT: it was actually the power lines not the transmitter that fell in the river. This is much better news!