[Republic]

Hey! Thanks.....65,000 is a lot of people...if the report is true and the entire county is underwater (that is an amazing thing to think about), hope it is very shallow water. I think of the folks who refused to go to safer areas, (and I think of the trapped animals).

Are the cable stations able to get crews out to the various places outside NO proper to show this type of flooding?

[EBH]

No, they can't get out and about yet! It's still too dangerous.

[conservative in nyc]

Most of the population of St. Bernard Parish is in Chalmette (32,000), down the Mississippi River from Arabi (8,000). The Google Earth image shows lots of oil tanks near the river, which is at a few feet higher elevation than the inland residential areas. Arabi is near the part of New Orleans that is reported flooded due to the Industrial Canal levee break. Flooding was reported in Arabi when the levee broke this morning.