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I'd say we should start a new warning thread in Breaking News, but no one in danger has electricity and thus no internet access. So it wouldn't be of help.

There are going to be a lot more rescues required. Luckily there no longer is much of a storm surge, so the flooding won't be the guaranteed deadly 15-25' deep.

You can map any street here, with elevation contours:

http://terraserver-usa.com/

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.

Can you imagine? People with very little room to spare; trapped in their attics...and a levee breach?

Not to mention; trapped in an attic, with no water in August temperatures.

It's unthinkable.

Per the NO Times-Picayune, the break is on the 17th Street Canal near the Hammond Highway. That's on the New Orleans-Metairie border near the lake:

Flood waters still rising, Red Cross expects "largest recovery operaton" ever
By Mark Schleifstein
Staff writer

Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman Marty Bahamond, stationed at the New Orleans Emergency Operations Center, said a 100-to-200-meter section of levee and wall failed on the eastern side of the 17th Street Canal at the Hammond Highway bridge, which connects Buck Town in Metairie and West Lakeview in New Orleans.

Bahamond said the breach is a major factor in flooding that now covers an area bounded by the 17th Street Canal, the Industrial Canal and Interstate 10, and is spreading.

Areas flooded include the neighborhoods of Gentilly, Lakeview, City Park and Mid City, he said.

Determining exactly where the water from the 17th Street Canal is going is difficult, but its causing floodwaters to rise in that entire area late Monday.

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http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_nolaview/archives/2005_08.html#074963