Katrina in Alabama

From the AP:

-Two deaths.

-About 718,000 homes and businesses without power.

-Flooding reached 11 feet in Mobile, matching record set in 1917, according to National Weather Service. Water up to roofs of cars in downtown Mobile and bayou communities. Piers ransacked and grand homes flooded along Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay.

-Major bridge over the Mobile River remained closed Tuesday; it was struck by an oil drilling platform that floated away from a shipyard.

-Quote: "She said she was in water up to her chin," Kim Stringfellow said of woman and five children brought to shelter at church in Bayou La Batre.

The Mobile Register has more here and here.