Can't find the magazine on Magazine Street

[infrogmation]

Doc Brite made an excellent post about Katrina & inaccurate media coverage here -- but on one of the points that seemed wrong the National Geographic actually had it right: A day after the storm, waters were indeed flowing out of the Lower 9th Ward into the Industrial Canal, in that the water level at that time was higher on the inland side of the busted levee. (My best guess as to why would be that water from MRGO was still flowing into the Lower 9th via Chalmette & Arabi, but the Industrial Canal level had already started to go down with the level of Lake Pontchartrain.)

I havn't yet had a chance to see that issue, but I've seen photos of the phenomenon like this one:
FEMA photo from the air via Wikimedia

I also remember seeing helicopter shots of that on tv at the time -- though the network newscasters misidentified the location as being the 17th Street Canal breach, which was pretty much at the other end of town.

Yes, refrigerators in trees. Cars supported by chain link fences. And flood waters flowing from the city into a nearby body of water. Sometimes one's mind's first reaction says, "That can't be right", but with Katrina, that's how it is.

Do any of my out-of-town readers happen to have a copy of the National Geographic Katrina issue, or would be able to easily get one, and might be willing to send me one at a reasonable price?

Comments

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

When I first got wind of that issue I called to request one and was told they were on backorder so I placed my request.
That was 12 weeks ago and I still haven't seen a charge on my cc nor the magazine.
You can call and order one direct if you're so inclined from here:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/katrina/index.html
Order this special edition by phone. Please call 800 777 2800 (U.S. and Canada) or
+1 813 979 6845 (International).

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

National Geographic revisited: I got a call from my son today and
there are a couple of issues on the way-priority 2 day mail.
To us that probably translates to 7 days, but hey!
National Geographic! Email me where to send you your copy if you
still want one.