the animals/looters on tv are doing signifigant damage to public willingness to rebuild it, I bet.
WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
08:14 PM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005
Tom Planchet
8:10 P.M. - BATON ROUGE (AP): Military helicopters on Thursday dropped sandbags into the levee breach that allowed flood waters from Lake Pontchartrain to pour into New Orleans, Louisiana's top transportation official said.
The sandbags are part of a temporary plan aimed at plugging the hole in the levee. The next part: drop about 250 concrete road barriers into the area and seal the spot where swirling waters undermined and toppled the floodwall, said Johnny Bradberry, head of the state Department of Transportation and Development.
"We'll start putting in the concrete when we run out of sand," Bradberry said.
The lake's levels have dropped about 2 1/2 feet over the past two days, about equal to the water level in flooded areas on the other side of the levee, Bradberry said. Contractors also had finished building a road that will make it easier to get heavy equipment to the levee area that needs to be repaired.