Is anyone else out there having a hard wrapping their brains around the devastation that’s taken place in New Orleans? Check out Metroblogging New Orleans for some first hand accounts of what’s going on.

Here’s a chunk of a report from Bloomberg Canada:

It may be weeks or even longer before people are allowed back to some areas of New Orleans, said Lieutenant Kevin Cowan, a spokesman for the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. He said “thousands” of people in and around New Orleans still need to be rescued.

“The infrastructure is damaged so bad that it’ll have to be completely rebuilt,” Cowan said in a telephone interview from Baton Rouge. “Buildings are down, parts of roads have been washed away and utilities are gone. There’s no food, no water, no sustenance whatsoever ever; there are no services in the New Orleans area, so people are destitute.”

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