[Ol' Sox]

WBRZ is reporting that 125 people in the 9th Ward have had to climb up onto the roofs of their homes due to rising water. The 9th ward is surrounded on three sides by water. This is probably close to the levee breach at Tennessee St. at the Industrial Canal.

[gopwinsin04]

Any one have confirmation on the FOX report that the Mississipi levee broke in the French Quarter?

[Spiff]

Here's a map of known FReepers who are riding out the storm. It was generated with Google Earth and it includes live NSSL Hi-Res Reflectivity Radar. (1020 EDT)

We're keeping track of FReepers in Katrina's path in this thread. Much larger versions of this map are posted there, so keep in mind that the thread is graphics heavy at times. I got this image as small as I could get it.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

---WBRZ is reporting that 125 people in the 9th Ward have had to climb up onto the roofs of their homes due to rising water. The 9th ward is surrounded on three sides by water. This is probably close to the levee breach at Tennessee St. at the Industrial Canal.---

That happened in the same general area during Betsy....

[jeffers]

Ol' Sox posted:

"WBRZ is reporting that 125 people in the 9th Ward have had to climb up onto the roofs of their homes
due to rising water. The 9th ward is surrounded on three sides by water. This is probably close to the
levee breach at Tennessee St. at the Industrial Canal."

Agreed, a report from the governor tied them together.

another member posted that he believed this was physically seperated from the main downtown New Orleans levee system and judging from material posted by yet another freeper, I now concur.

I know of no reports that indicate levee breaches in the downtown area as of this post.

[NautiNurse]

125 people in the 9th Ward have had to climb up onto the roofs of their homes due to rising water.

This is why they told people who chose to stay to have a pick axe ready, so they could break out onto their roofs.