Amid Flood, Big Easy Paper Turns to Web

[steve2470]

http://www.betanews.com/article/Amid_Flood_Big_Easy_Paper_Turns_to_Web/1125519688

By Ed Oswald and Nate Mook, BetaNews
August 31, 2005, 4:21 PM

16 feet of water hasn't stopped a local New Orleans newspaper from keeping the information flowing out of the hurricane-ravaged city. The New Orleans Times-Picayune has turned to the Internet and its Web site to keep residents and evacuees informed of the latest on the situation.

For a time Monday night, it appeared that New Orleans had been spared the full wrath of Hurricane Katrina as most of the city remained dry. However, a serious break in a levee along Lake Ponchartrain caused water to flood into the city, which predominantly sits like a bowl below sea level.


Amid rising waters, the newspaper evacuated its headquarters in downtown New Orleans. "Water continues to rise around our building, as it is throughout the region. We want to evacuate our employees and families while we are still able to safely leave our building," a representative for the paper wrote in the newspaper's Web log at 9:40am Tuesday.

Since then, the paper has been operating out of Houma at the offices of the Houma Courier and in Baton Rouge, both about 60 miles away from the city. Each day, the paper will release a special "hurricane edition" electronically in PDF format, and it has also promised continuous updates through its family of Web logs on NOLA.com.


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[NYC]

1. I read their descriptions of the Times Picayune office

as things went downhill. I think I found it through the nola.com site.