[va4me]

Flash warning on the top of WWLTV web page, nothing further.

[pbear8]

I was hoping they'd have some success with the sandbagging, guess not.

God Bless the rescuers and those they seek.

[Free Vulcan]

Is that a levee for the lake or the river?

Prayers to all down there and those displaced.

[TXBubba]

Sorry to hear more bad news. I hope they can get folks out.

Have they been able to get the Superdome evacuated yet?

[AmericanMade1776]

Honestly, Looters are common in New Orleans, even before Katrina. The Only place, I ever had my pocket picked, was in New Orleans.

[xcamel]

Juat Damn, again.

[Peach]

This is just more horrific news. Horrific.

[My Favorite Headache]

I asked this on another thread...how is it Bourbon Street is dry? And the rest of N.O. seems to be under water? Will this water now just rush and sink into Bourbon?

[cincinnati65]

So you don't evacuate the Superdome all day long, and you give the few people that remained on dry ground a false sense of security that the flooding is over by running the pumps all day, then you give up and let the pumps shut off just in time for nightfall??????

God love the men and women on the lines fighting the good fight, but this has been an administrative nightmare from day one.

Apparently some of the issues with fixing the levee breach had to deal with which parish had jurisdiction over the breached section. One parish was working on their end, while the other wasn't.

[Brad’s Gramma]

bttt

[fortunecookie]

I was hoping the sandbagging would work and the water would stop rising. I pray that the rescue workers can get to everyone. It's devastating news.

[SkyPilot]

If this breech is not fixed, the entire city may be lost and become "Atlantis."

This is no joke.

[RaceBannon]

Helicopters cannot carry in more than 6000 lbs at a run, most of them,If they dropped CONEX boxes filled with sand, it might make a small plug, but with too much area around each box to leak

All they can do is stop it once it has already emptied the lake, to fill the dike once it is empty, there are just not enough helicopters available nor conex boxes filled with sand to make a new rough breech, and then they would need tons of gravel to fill in the cracks around the CONEX boxes...

The only other thing is to sink a barge that is floated from the lake first, then sink it at the breech.

But how would you get the barge to the breech from the lake side?

[KC Burke]

The only bright spot is that the flooding of the main city didn't happen during Sunday night. At least there is a chance for most to get to safety.

Cities built below sea level, next to a great river and on the ocean are like those built on active faults -- human folly.

[CobaltBlue]

My opinion is that anybody who can get to the Mississippi River levee should get there and start walking north. Once they get to Gramercy it looks like they can drive out.

The levee was the only place of refuge during the 1927 flood.

This is not the same levee that broke - that's the lake levee - and I believe that the river is not high, in fact it's low. I just checked NOAA web site - if it's accurate, then it's safe to walk on top of the Mississippi Rive levee.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lix/html/rvs.shtml

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