[monday]

"Not true. Plenty of the old victorians and even some antebellum houses survived, and you can tour many of them every year at the GHF Historic Home Tour"

I know. I have been there, but the vast majority were leveled by the hurricane. MY point was they didn't have to worry about burying or raising thousands of homes when they raised the island.

[Abigail Adams]

Bernard perish, Judge Perez drive, firefighters trapped at civic center due to rising floodwaters. They can't make rescues.

[Smogger]

WWLTV reporting:

Mayor: 200 trapped on Ninth Ward rooftops; bodies floating in Bywater

02:37 PM CDT on Monday, August 29, 2005

WWLTV.com

Mayor Ray Nagin said that 200 people were stranded on rooftops in the Lower Ninth Ward and several “bodies are floating in the water” in the Bywater neighborhood and in Eastover.

Nagin made the announcement in his first press briefing after Hurricane Katrina slammed just east of the city, but did plenty of devastation to New Orleans.

Nagin said that the 200 stranded people included 20 police officers who were riding out the storm at their homes in preparation to take over shifts from other officers. He said that boats would be dispatched on rescue missions later in the afternoon.

Mayor Nagin issued a "boil water" recommendation for water in the city - except for Algiers and the CBD due to a water main line break that may have compromised the water.

Nagin said at least 20 buildings in the city had collapsed and that it might be 48 hours before residents would be allowed back to their homes to assess the damage.