> another poster earlier on this thread said that s/he has heard that the Army Corps of Engineers reports that the levee breaches have been closed and that the pumping has begun. If true, that's very good news.
To repeat from an earlier post, I heard the Army Corp of Engineers guy on the news this evening. He said, once the levees are repaired (he estimated 4 days for that job), he said it would take 3 to 6 months to drain the city!
Thanks- in a thread of this size, once you've read something, it becomes a major undertaking to find it again.