I am kind of ignorant about such things...but won't there be a problem when they get electricity up...like a power surge... or anything?
Is the gas on in all the homes...I know there are houses in our city that have exploded before, just from a gas leak..and a spark.
I guess they can't turn off the natural gas because the pipes are underwater? (I don't know much about it either). But fires after floods are a common occurrence. Some of it down there is arson; some is carelessness...people trying to cook on propane stoves, etc.
They've got to force all those people out of there. Just remove them. The situation gets worse every day.
I saw Amanpour on CNN at the morgue that has been set up in Saint Gabriel....it is a huge place. They are expecting thousands of bodies. Christiane says we will be shocked once more when the water recedes enough to reveal all the bodies inside buildings.
Oh heck yes there will be problems.... there will be shorts all over the place...and some of those jokers in Jefferson County have generators wired into their houses....those will blow up. They were issuing warnings for people to only run appliances from the generator, not jury rig it into your house electrical box.
Usually you tell people to turn off the circuit breakers when they leave. And then turn them on one at a time.