A sobering signoff from the Times-Pic, below. Tulane's website is down. Anecdotal reports indicate catastrophic losses in most sections of the city, and even worse heading east along what used to be I-10.
T-P EVACUATING
Tuesday, 9:40 a.m.
The Times-Picayune is evacuating its New Orleans building.Water continues to rise around our building, as it is throughout the region. We want to evaucate our employees and families while we are still able to safely leave our building.
Our plan is to head across the Mississippi River on the Pontchartrain Expressway to the west bank of New Orleans and Jefferson Parish. From there, we'll try to head to Houma.
Our plan, obviously, is to resume providing news to our readers ASAP. Please refer back to this site for continuing information as soon as we are able to provide it.
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Rebuild power system, Entergy says
Tuesday, 9:25 a.m.
Entergy probably will have to rebuild its power system, a process that will take at least a month, because hurricane-related damage was so extensive, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
"We're looking at a rebuild situation," Dan Silverman said. "I don't want to minimize the devastation we've experience in the metro area. . . . Maybe this isn't he worst, but it's damn close."
Speaking on WWL-AM radio the morning after Hurricane Katrina roared through the New Orleans area, Silverman said that all Entergy customers -- about 750,000 people -- are without power and that nearly all the power poles he has seen had been snapped in two.
Nevertheless, he said, some substations are still in working order. Their capabilities are being assessed as part of a study of Entergy's power system.
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