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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:08:51 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The thought that went through my mind was like a spillway.
I can certaintly believe it. Heck At least CNN actually got reporters in the area. If the vice president of Tulane Hospital is saying whitecaps are going down canal I suspect they are. I can't believe the other networks arent interrupting. Sometimes Fox is pathetic in their coverage of big events
I'm relegated to watching CNN also, and that is quite disturbing. I loathe CNN.
hold on... I'll see what I can do
It's that big .. I was typing what Nagin was saying about the break in the levee on the WWL damage update several pages pack. So this news is hours old .. and God knows how long ago Nagin found out about it.
Can you map it on here and link it here? I just am not at all familiar with New Orleans.
http://maps.google.com/
http://www.waterstructures.com/Construction/Arcata-CA%20Levee/arcata_levee0.html
They managed to hold back the bloody Pacific Ocean!
Will probably flood those big hotels down on canal.
I've stayed in most of them several times.
Hope they have plenty of food.
Shame that Fox and MSNBC have gone to replays.
The bad part for NO may just be starting.
I did not hear anything about white caps but she said you cannot believe how fast the water is rising!
Did you hear the whole location of the 17th St. levee that's leaking?
Stage them at a nearby military hospital, fly them out to other facilities as needed.
You give people too little credit.
Five bucks sez things will be cleaned up and business-as-usual by Thanksgiving.
yes...but the wind is picking up and I have large but fragile hackberries and tulip poplars on the sharp slope above my house....I live in a hollow about 5-600 feet high about midway up
I may get my kids and put them all downstairs to be safe
I've had trees collapse uphill before.
If the wind does do 40 with 60-70 gusts like they are calling for in a few hours....we will lose power
now for a flood...up here....lol...it would have to be Biblical or meteoric
this is like vacation for me being in the car wash and self storage businesses....and all schools are closed
winds steady 30 now....which silly as it seems is high for us...our power grid is wickedly fragile....
If this is true they need to send an engineer there promptly to dream up some way to plug the breach, quickly, if at all possible. Probably dropping lots of large pieces of concrete and loose rocks initially. Waiting until the pressure equalizes means waiting until that bowl is FULL, which pushes the date of everything else way back. This actually is more important and may save more lives than the individual rescue operations. Resources should be diverted as needed. If the engineers say the breach can't be plugged then send a little Dutch boy to do the job!
Not if the city center drowns.
They need to just shoot the looters.
Here are google maps of it.
http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=48087&view=findpost&p=568112
We have figured out the last image is not it, but like I said... they look very similar construction-wise.
Not to mention; trapped in an attic, with no water in August temperatures.
It's unthinkable.
A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new ‘hurricane proof’ Old Hammond Highway bridge, gave way late Monday morning in Bucktown after Katrina’s fiercest winds were well north. The breach sent a churning sea of water coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City P
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