Mayor: Major Breach Flooding and Destroying New Orleans

BayouBuzz.com ^ | 8/30/2005 | Steve Sabludowsky

[Prince Charles]

This is much more alarming than the CNN reports.

[goldstategop]

Who would have guessed N.O is on the verge of being flooded by the sea? Oh I forgot, its all Bush's fault - Hurricane Katrina van den Heuvel is the work of dastardly global warming.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[LibFreeOrDie]

Link to video of interview with Mayor 11 PM NOLA time. Pretty grim.

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

[John Jamieson]

No hurricanes in Bush's first two years, must be the work of BL.

[Loud Mime]

I'm wondering how New Orleans will be rebuilt, if at all. It just doesn't make sense to build a city under sea level when the sea is banging on the door.

Of course, Brawley California is a few feet under; but it's got a lot of room between it and the ocean.

[dandelion]

I can't sleep; I can't believe that this is only being covered right now on CNN; I can't fathom how this could possibly be anything beyond catastrophic.

And so I pray. It's all that's left to us, and to the citizens of the Crescent City. God save them.

[djf]

Sounds like the lake is doing what the storm surge couldn't.

Prayers for the folks down there, but I gotta add a bit of a blurb questioning the wisdom of building a major city BELOW SEA LEVEL.

We ain't carp, well most of us ain't!

[Americanwolf]

That is a pretty grim assesment

[Prince Charles]

The highrise bridge is the one crossing the river? He's saying it may not be sound.

[Aracelis]

I'm not surprised. Louisiana has been holding the mouth of the Mississippi River in place through extraordinary means for decades. Under natural conditions, the Mississippi would meander all over southern Louisiana...but engineers have other ideas. We'll see who wins.

My heart goes out to the residents...

[Prince Charles]

This reminds me of the Chicago Freight Tunnel flood, although that only flooded the basements of downtown buildings. Can't imagine how long it will take to drain an entire city.

[teletech]

I saw that same WWL interview with the Mayor and he seemed to be saying they are in a condition where there is no way to contain the water coming through the levee breach. Two of their largest pumps went offline because they overheated and even if they were back online, it wouldn't help. The mayor said they are just moving the water in a circle.

I hope they can come up with a way to get Tulane Hospital evacuated. I think I heard there are 1000 patients in that hospital. I call on everyone here on FR to contunue to pray for New Orleans and its people.

[Aracelis]

And so I pray. It's all that's left to us, and to the citizens of the Crescent City. God save them.

You're a good woman, dandelion. I agree with your prayer...

[Prince Charles]

Yep, pray for the folks trapped by the rising water.

[Cedar]

We've been talking about this on another thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1472974/posts?page=2426


Seems it's serious, but not quite like the lake just pouring straight in. Read some of the posts at this link for a better explanation.

[Prince Charles]

but I gotta add a bit of a blurb questioning the wisdom of building a major city BELOW SEA LEVEL.

...or RE-building a city below sea level, although I'm sure Congress will throw enough money around to do just that.

[Prince Charles]

If the breach is in the canal then they should drop a few buildings into it to dam the canal?

[Cedar]

Good idea. Someone else suggested stick barges in the breach.

[Caipirabob]

God help them.

[stlnative]

barges float - lol!