Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part IX

NOAA - NHC and Various ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[King Prout]

earthen dikes, for the most part

[Tiger Smack]

he said it and some other alarming stuff. Go to www.wwltv.com and click on "Mayor update on city" link. its taped from earlier tonight. Slidell is all underwater, NO is 80%, twin span bridge is gone (this had the news anchors in shock), there is alos a barge leaking gasoline (or some other substance) into the mississppii river.

he also said that 3pumping stations are still not working

[BurbankKarl]

do these dikes have golpher holes like the ones in Sacramento Delta?

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

There appears to be a big deck surrounding the Superdome, a good ways above street level.

All the people yesterday saying the Superdome plan was a deathtrap may be right. I don't know how they can evacuate 15 thousand people.

[Spktyr]

No.

[bayourant]

Is anyone watching the streaming version of wwl are they reporting this

[flaglady47]

Thank goodness. Rich Sanchez is off and someone with a brain is now on (I've heard this guy before and he's pretty good). The French Quarter is now flooding. The new talking head says that there will be a statement given about this levee break and the flooding in about an hour or less. Keep tuned in on CNN (if you don't hit the sack).

[Tiger Smack]

are these concrete levee's like flood walls along the lake near the NO area?

earth mounds, id say about 80% of the leeves are earth mounds and concrete leeves top off the eartmounds near the lake Front.

[Spktyr]

It wasn't a deathtrap at the time - and the good news is that the SD is still going to be pretty much above the level of the lake anyway. The field will flood, but that's about it.

[KillBill]

Twin Span Bridge? Is this in New Orleans, or is this the causeway across Pontchartrain? I'm not familiar with NO enough to know what bridge is gone, and neither WWLTV nor NOLA.com have anything more than just this up.

[Cedar]

Corp statement in one hour, and then he quickly changed the topic again!

This sounds incredible...

[stlnative]

thanks

[STARWISE]

Yes .. he said that on this WWL update posted a couple of hours ago HERE

[bayourant]

From an earlier report I think it I-10 heading out to slidell no wonder they cant get stuff there

[King Prout]

wooooooo! the big mall on Veterans Memorial in Metairie is a frickin' island

iirc, that was relatively high ground, too, compared to Fat City on the west and the commercial districts to the east... let alone the residential areas south of Vets...

wooooo...

[Route66]

I highly recommend that people listen to this interview with the New Orleans mayor while it is still up on the WWL TV site.

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=www.wwltv.com/082905mayor.wmv

[bayourant]

I think this is why Baton Rouge has been so quiet gosh Mitch Landrieu was on their not long ago and not a peep well he has that new nice lt gov apt in BR now

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

I don't know. Pieces of the roof breaking off and now this. I would NOT want to be cooped up with 15 thousand agitated people. Maybe it won't flood, but how do you feed everyone and maintain order in that space for days?

[King Prout]

I have no idea.
what do you mena "gopher holes"?

[spunkets]

I don't know exactly what the levee looks like. They must have barges, or boats on the lake. CH-47s can haul 10ton. They need to look around at what the have and improvise fast.