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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:08:51 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Katrina made landfall today at 6:10AM CDT, and she continues to drive northward into Mississippi and Alabama. Several local radar sites are down. Tornado and flash flood watches and warnings are widespread.
President Bush has declared major disaster areas, clearing the way for federal aid.
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12
I know the feeling I am fighting it too, I didnt sleep at all last night
I know the feeling I am fighting it too, I didnt sleep at all last night
Try counting sheep (hehehe).
To reapeat there is no 200 foot breach pouring the entire lake into nola they are talking about the 17 street canal that is being refered to as a levee. It does connect with the lake buts its not this mammoth hole on the levee thats widening by the second thats the reason the national guard wasnt frightened as the cnn guy
It may be too late now to do much good for New Orleans. They should have lowered the Mississippi before the Hurricane hit. The question now is 'how high will the flood levels eventually reach'.
Sorry, I still don't understand. Where is water coming from and why?
Now i getting confused that wasnt much of a clarification that the Corp gavelet me clarify with some other source but i am pretty sure its nots a open 200 ft hole that flooding all of nola us louisiana;s arent to swift but we smarter than that to wait to check on it at 7 in the morning. I think they are refering to the canal
I would think the canal would be below the lake level and pumps would be used to pump water into the lake. No flow would go the other way???
Check out http://www.nola.com - they have the story and they are VERY concerned...
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html#074994
"Levee breach floods Lakeview, Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park
By Doug MacCash
and James OByrne
Staff writers
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 Katrinas fiercest winds were well north. The breach sent a churning sea of water coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east."...
..."The effect of the breach was instantly devastating to residents who had survived the fiercest of Katrinas winds and storm surge intact, only to be taken by surprise by the sudden deluge. And it added a vast swath of central New Orleans to those already flooded in eastern New Orleans, the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard and Plaquemines Parishes."...
Well.. the hospital VP on CNN stated that water was rushing down Canal Street as a result of this leak. So we can conclude that it's getting from the Lake into the city somehow.
Fox and Friends is on the air now, and (finally) covering the breach story.
def it comes from the lake but its a manmade canal its going to cause flooding but thats relative. Its like when there is a headline that Nagin says 80% of nola under water. Well that doesnt mean you can just run all over nola in a boat. In most cases that could be a couple of feet at the most but still be classified asunderwater or flooded. We know this. that the french quarter does not require a boat neither does the cbd. Uptown is not requiring a boat alot of this is in the ninthh ward and nola east Thats alot but that doesnt comprise 80 percent of nola that is requiring boats to travel in
See post 2453. Did someone try to put 10 pounds in a 5 pound bag?
In Georgia, we're told not to have trees on earthen dams for just that reason.
On WLW radio the announcer said his neighborhood fared well during the hurricane, but now the water is three feet and rising.
Said choppers constantly in the air plucking folks from roofs. Said that the bridge to Slidell had been completely under water during the surge and that part of it is gone.
Said that a water tower in Slidell is gone.
Hope someone can monitor this station, because they are taking phone calls and passing on real information.
Had to get some sleep!
I agree, it is the unknowing that is probably the worst for most.
Listening to the Mayor late last night was amazing . . . he seems totally overwhelmed and helpless . . . like if you or I woke up and found out we were Mayor of New Orleans . . . we might be nice people, even fairly smart, but totally ill prepared to lead the city out of the biggest crisis ever . . . he seems like a passive observer, rather than a knowledgeable disaster manager . . . maybe he'd make a great neighbor, but he's in over his head . . .
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