Update

Still no footage from St. Bernard Parish, but a reporter who was near there talked about serious damage. St. Tammany Parish also got hit hard.

Over here, over 600 trees and 300 power lines were down. Again, I'm one of the lucky ones--I've got electricity. Some 70,000 people here in the parish are without power--and more than ten times that statewide.

Oh--and some footage from the 9th Ward in New Orleans was shown...there's flooding up to the rooftops.

On the ugly side, some looting is being reported.

And, on the truly sad side, casualty counts are beginning to be reported--dozens in Gulfport, Mississippi, sporadic reports of possible deaths in or around NOLA. I have a sinking feeling we're going to hear about more deaths fairly soon.

A few other items of interest: here's the New Orleans Metroblogging site--they had a link to the official website for St. Bernard Parish. I'll be keeping an eye out on both.