[Torie]

No it doesn't. I never said it did. There are levees down along lake ponchartrain in the main bowl, which would get the water up to sea level in it, or maybe a foot above, but now the pics show the water 4 feet above sea level in the main bowl. Thus the Mississippi, which is 14 feet above sea level, must be flooding in, and presumably the water is flowing through NO into Lake Ponchatrain, and the Missisippi has found a new channel to the sea, right through beautiful downtown NO.

I think that about sums it up. Maybe somebody should tell the networks to read this post.

[Tuxedo]

Thus the Mississippi, which is 14 feet above sea level, must be flooding in, and presumably the water is flowing through NO into Lake Ponchatrain

Sounds like simple physics to me.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Another possibility, and this is just a WAG, is that the Bonne Carret (sp?) spillway is open between the river and the SW side of the lake, perhaps keeping the lake above sea level at the point where the 17th St. canal intersects? That spillway area had lots of water driven into it by the wind, and could likely been at a higher level than the lake and last to drain. So if they opened the spillway as a relief valve for the river, it still might stay high.

Also, the levees on the west side next to the spillway are only 10' and 11', so perhaps that is an overtop point that hasn't been reported? The 17th st. overtopping didn't get reported until 14+ hours after it first occured yesterday morning, though perhaps because the breach didn't take place until after dark.

Unrelated thought, am wondering if another nuisance is sunburn now for those guards and prisoners evac'd from the prison and sitting out there in the sun.

[Johnny Crab]

There are levees down along lake ponchartrain in the main bowl, which would get the water up to sea level in it, or maybe a foot above, but now the pics show the water 4 feet above sea level in the main bowl. Thus the Mississippi, which is 14 feet above sea level, must be flooding in, and presumably the water is flowing through NO into Lake Ponchatrain, and the Missisippi has found a new channel to the sea, right through beautiful downtown NO. I think that about sums it up. Maybe somebody should tell the networks to read this post.

You are very much correct. The Industrial Canal lock SEEMS to be missing and may have been opened to let the river water from the St. Bernard side equalize things....but I cannot fathom the east side of the Industrial Canal with 20 ~ 30 feet of water over EVERYTHING(up to the canal levee). Glad I have memories, photos, and videos of "how it was"..