I was looking through the aerials along Grand Isle, LA where we have a coastal shoreline stabilization project and saw written out of debris "HELP!" God help the poor soul trapped on Grand Isle, hopefully the Mayor made it out to the island with plenty of supplies yesterday. He had called to let us know that the roads were blocked and that he would be traveling out in a boat to survey the damage.
Out of curiousity, I took one of the photos and georeferenced it using a georeferenced aerial image from 2004 that we had at work. The rectification isn't perfect, but it's close enough to get an idea what happened. The aerial is of the southwest tip of Grand Isle, near Caminada Pass. The first picture was taken in 2004, the second after Hurricane Katrina.
2004 DOQ Aerial Image of the Southwest corner of Grand Isle
2005 Post-Katrina Aerial Image of the Southwest corner of Grand Isle
2005 Post Katrina image overlaid on top of 2004 DOQ
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