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 O’Byrne
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 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 Park and neighborhoods farther south and east."...
..."The effect of the breach was instantly devastating to residents who had survived the fiercest of Katrina’s 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.