Posted on 08/30/2005 6:45:01 PM PDT by MikeJ
Nothing but the headline now:
"FLASH: New Orleans mayor says attempt to plug breach has failed and rising water about to overwhelm pumps; water will rise rapidly again, as high as 15ft in next few hours..."
Link goes here, but no details yet.
Gov Blanco confirmed Nagins statement on Larry king
NO may have to be relocated.
Tragic.
Well there are going to be stories about the Lost City of New Orleans... I hope not...
Already posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473740/posts
I have been feeling really bad about this situation. I think it is going to get a lot worse. The station I am watching is requesting different kinds of medicine to be brought to LSU.
But not like you think. A story or two ABOVE, perhaps. But not somewhere else. Bigger pumps, better superdome roof, more levees, more "plans" for the future, etc. But it won't move inland.
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?
All they need are 253 million truckloads of fill dirt(give or take).
I think the Lord Mayor said words to the effect, "I told them what to do, but somebody dropped the ball." What a leader!
no surprise - there is NO way to stop a 2-block long (8 hours ago) breech in a levee.
it was just "touchy-feely-good" p.r. scheme forced by the media and other unintelligent whiners for the gubmint to do something - no matter how foolish.
agreeded its all looks horrible now but it will be rebuilt but better I just hope we dont loose all the history.
The real tragedy here is that this is happening near nightfall, when it will be much harder to judge the rising water and people are attempting to sleep. God help them.
Another 15 feet? ..Holy moly is all I can say.
well you got to try something I am really surprised that US military units just not Guard units have not been moblized on a grand scale here
Could they drop a container box with some weight in it down, then fill it with sand from fire control choppers?
You know ...I agree with your thought. They ought to fill all the low land up to and above the height of the levees. Call it New New Orleans and start all over. No more flooding! At least not as easily.
Or as somebody suggested earlier, New Improved Orleans.
What is the difference in levels? In other words, how much water will flow in until the levels are equal, and how will that affect the city?
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