Plenty of live coverage on Fox now of water GUSHING over the Industrial Canal levee/wall break - refilling the 9th Ward with water. Let's call a breach a breach. What else can you call it?
I found the update... scroll up (or down? ) :)
I'd call it overtopping from that description - the current wind direction, from the WSW, is pusing water from the Gulf up into Ponchatrain and causing modest surge. However, recall that a wall used to be in place at the former breach point - and that wall is no longer in place. So it wouldn't take much of a rise to overtop the levee at that point.
So the key question is, will it remain overtopping? Or will the water eat down into the repairs and re-open the breach?
And then there's that little problem of 5 inches of rain when the city pumps are not fully back on line yet...
My confusion with breaches is it's worse if it is an actual breach/break versus water just flowing over the levee... isn't it? A big hole for ALL the water to flow through until they can fix it versus only the water over a certain height flowing over?
I'd been hoping they weren't actual breaches. But they are. :(
A Gargantuous Trickle ?