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To: John Jamieson

see cnn thinks the breach is on the lake itself not the canal its a misunderstanding the guard guy thinks he is talking about the canl cnn thinks its the on the lake itself


2,426 posted on 08/30/2005 1:42:59 AM PDT by bayourant
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To: bayourant

Corp of Engineers will head out at sunrise to fix breach.


2,427 posted on 08/30/2005 1:44:51 AM PDT by Cedar
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its typical correspondants not knowing new orleans lingo like the correspondants didnt even know where kenner and metarie were for heavens sake.


2,428 posted on 08/30/2005 1:45:06 AM PDT by bayourant
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To: bayourant

I assume the canal is at the local level and is pumped into the lake? Breach would have to be at lake levee unless the canal has levees too!?


2,431 posted on 08/30/2005 1:46:23 AM PDT by John Jamieson (Hybrids are a highway around CAFE, that's all they're good for.)
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To: bayourant

According to this report, posted at 6:31 AM EDT, there are breaks in at least 3 levees:

http://ap.wwltv.com/dynamic/stories/H/HURRICANE_KATRINA?SITE=WWL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=USHEADS.html&CTIME=2005-08-29-18-59-09

"Even with Katrina swirling away to the north, two different levee breaches in New Orleans sent a churning sea of water coursing through city streets."

"Col. Rich Wagenaar of the Army Corps of Engineers, said a breach in the eastern part of the city was causing flooding and "significant evacuations" in Orleans and St. Bernard parishes. He did not know how many people were affected by the flooding."

"Authorities also were gathering information on a levee breach in the western part of New Orleans. Jason Binet, of the Army Corps of Engineers, said that breach began Monday afternoon and may have grown overnight."

"In a particularly low-lying neighborhood on the south shore of Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain, a levee along a canal gave way and forced dozens of residents to flee or scramble to the roofs when water rose to their gutters."


2,462 posted on 08/30/2005 4:21:41 AM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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