The river is higher than the city. It would. It'd be like pouring water from a pitcher. And there's no end of water to see...and it would be tearing up everything in its wake. Lots of current, lots of pressure behind it. Impossible to empty. The lake is lower than the river. It wouldn't equalize.
Agreed.
Tell the TP.
They reported it, along with one other anecdotal account.
Knit, I'm with you if that River is allow to backflow into the Industrial Canal that would be a mess. I'm trying to get elevations of the non-River levees. From what I've seen on the news and my recollection of New Orleans the River levees are much higher.
I believe New Orleans will turn out to be America's equivalent of Pompeii. There were several "minor" eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius which damaged the city and gave the Romans ample warning before the city was completely buried in the cataclysmic one of A.D. 79. Hard-headed realists that they were, the Romans figured-out that they should relocate elswhere.