The Biloxi Sun-Herald staff provides chilling details of the flooding that has ravaged Biloxi, Gulfport and New Orleans.

“Back in New Orleans, medics converted part of the Superdome — already the steamy home of 10,000 people — into a triage center for scores of the injured and sick, many of them found on rooftops and street corners. Some were sent to hospitals in Baton Rouge,” the story reads.

“The narrow, debris-filled streets of the tourist-oriented French Quarter filled with more than two feet of water. Terrified by what they heard on the radio, some people ran down the streets, screaming and warning others.

” ‘Get out of town if you can,’ said Ed Freytag, a city worker at the temporary City Hall complex in the Hyatt Regency.

”We’ve lost our city,” said Mark Morial, a former mayor of New Orleans, now serving as president of the National Urban League. “I fear it’s potentially like Pompeii.”