My recollection on watching the news on Tuesday morning following the hurricane was that the Mississippi coast had been flattened, but New Orleans had again dodged a bullet. I didn't hear anything about flooding until later on Tuesday.
The earliest I heard of it was mid day or later on Tuesday.
You may be right about that. I do remember that after the hurricane caam on shore, there was at least 24 hours before we knew that NO was going to be in more serious shape than originally reported. The first thing I remember hearing when I listened on Monday morning was that Katrina had veered east and was hitting the Mississippi coast and NO was on the fringe of the western eye of the storm.
Not trusting my recollection, I looked back through the archives for this selection of posts ...
May be old news, but ABC just had the mayor of NO on, via telephone, and the mayor is getting word that some of the Levees at Lake Pontchartrain have been breeched.The storm was still ongoing, and it is clear that reports of the Industrial Canal breach came late Monday morning. The media was looking at the levees that define part of Lake Pontchartrain, and not to the Industrial Canal or 17th Street levees, and imputed to "no failure of a levee at the lake", the quality of "no flood in NOLA."742 posted on 08/29/2005 8:46:29 AM EDT by Northern Yankee
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
814 AM CDT MON AUG 29 2005
* A LEVEE BREACH OCCURRED ALONG THE INDUSTRIAL CANAL AT TENNESSE STREET. 3 TO 8 FEET OF WATER IS EXPECTED DUE TO THE BREACH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ARABI AND 9TH WARD OF NEW ORLEANS.1,063 posted on 08/29/2005 9:23:48 AM EDT by silentknight
msnbc guy just saying that LA governor said the NO levees are not being breached - that it's just water coming over the levees. Someone in Louisiana - please send this idiot woman away from any microphones!!!1,916 posted on 08/29/2005 10:54:29 AM EDT by daybreakcoming
well, storm's over.....let's move on...
..Shep has spoken and said NO got lucky and dodged it again...2,124 posted on 08/29/2005 11:19:33 AM EDT by Guenevere
I went to bed last night KNOWING that New Orleans was going to be destroyed. That last minute jog and decrease of intensity appears to have saved it. If the levees hold for another couple of hours, which they probably will, the city will have escaped a death sentence.It's not over yet, but I am so elated at the moment. I guess I now know what it must be like to be bi-polar, because I can't imagine a more significant mood swing in the past 12 hours.
2,342 posted on 08/29/2005 11:43:28 AM EDT by Dog Gone
As reported by Fox News about 11:15CST, Major levee breach on east bank of the Industrial Canal has flooded eastern New Orleans and the New Orleans lower 9th ward above many first floor windows, and up to ceilings in most houses. Reporter is stuck on an overpass and reports water topping U-Haul delivery trucks on the roadways. Also reports whitecaps in the streets and lapping onto houses. Let's hope the Lake Ponchartrain levees hold, as we are reaching a critical point with water being forced south by severe north winds at this point.
http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=48218 Source2,781 posted on 08/29/2005 12:34:10 PM EDT by HoHoeHeaux
I'm also confused.All morning I've been hearing about breached levees and that P lake spilling over.
And yet I keep reading that NO dodged the bullet.
I am totally unfamiliar with NO. I'm not proud of that fact.
I do know about hurricanes being from Merryland and now living in Delaware.
But it sure doesn't sound like a dodged bullet to me.
2,824 posted on 08/29/2005 12:38:56 PM EDT by Fishtalk
COE is checking on the levee breech. Flooding is severe along major roadways in N.O. - many homes flooded up to chest level and some up to the roof tops. Mayor says that many businesses are destroyed and leveled. Witnessing looting in a number of buildings that were destroyed. Anyone else hearing this...3,370 posted on 08/29/2005 2:09:02 PM EDT by silentknight
I agree with you. and it appears that the levees around the lake have held up (??), so this adamant prediction from people like Bastardi that the eye moving east of NO would cause the north to south wind that would drive the lake into NO, did not pan out, those levees along the lake held.
Those live threads are now an outstanding research reference, but it takes quite a bit of time to slog through them. "Part IX" would pick up where this thread left off, and one could get a good sense of when the media PROMINENTLY figured out that NOLA was flooded or flooding.
Yes, 80% according to Nagin. And according to Jeanne Meserve on CNN earlier the water is rising. The levees have been compromised and breached in certain sections. Water is continuing to flow into New Orleans from Lake Poncatrain.1,874 posted on 08/30/2005 1:14:28 AM EDT by lauriehelds
Listened to the mayor just now on the WWL link . . . "many, many reports of bodies floating in the water" . . . and yes, he confirms that the water is still rising . . . 2-block hole in concrete levee - 17th Street Canal is still flowing INTO the city . . . total devastation in St. Bernard . . .1,913 posted on 08/30/2005 1:27:20 AM EDT by LikeLight
Water rising an inch every 5 mins at Tulane University per CNN. 17th St. Rd. and Canal levee is breeched per the police and they must evacuate the critical patients by helicopter. the water is too high for ambulances.2,106 posted on 08/30/2005 2:30:52 AM EDT by sheikdetailfeather
A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new `hurricane proof' Old Hammond Highway bridge, gave way late Monday morningSo they've known for at least 14 hours that the city would flood to the level of the lake.
2,280 posted on 08/30/2005 3:23:25 AM EDT by Diddle E. Squat
Times-Picayune reports here on the levee breech.2,281 posted on 08/30/2005 3:23:37 AM EDT by JohnBovenmyer
Levee breaches are causing rising water in New Orleans. WWL-TV studios are being evacuated due to rising water in the French Quarter. WWL will begin broadcasting from LSU as soon as possible and we will be attempting to stream on the web.Mayor Ray Nagin reports the Twin Span Bridge is "totally destroyed" and that 80% of the city is underwater. Click for streaming video.
Northshore Report: Slidell: extensive flood damage, impassable roads; Covington and Mandeville: extensive wind damage - entire parish without power. Click for story.
146 posted on 08/30/2005 10:28:05 AM EDT by Pete