Posted on 09/01/2008 2:26:43 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/gustav.html
Live coverage...levee is failing 350 feet of wall falling apart as we speak...
Braithwaite Levee failing expected to break
200 homes at risk of being flooded...this entire neighborhood was destroyed in Katrina...National Guard is on its way
I live in Cleveland. I work with a lady whose husband spends months and months away from her. He is a civil employee of the Army Corps of Engineers in NOL. It takes a very special couple to be able to do that. I wish all well.
that’s in Plaquemines Parish, not NO. It’s a local levee, and it sucks for the 100-200 people who will be flooded, but this was somewhat expected and doesn’t have any wider implications beyond the immediate area.
Which station is talking about it? I wonder what neighborhood this is in.
WGNO ABC
If a levee in Louisiana fails, the local Army Corps of Engineers entire office should be fired. The Corps of Bungleers has become a sad joke filled with bureaucrats and do nothing environmentalist nutcases.
If they can’t do their core job functions, fire them all.
FOX not reporting anything about this
It’s a private levee, also. Not that it helps.
Did Bush blow it up? < \Obama supporter Farakahn mode>
Plaquemines Parish officials are at the Clearwater Canal levee in Braithwaite, where water is coming over the top of the levee and threatens the Braithwaite Park subdivision.
Workers are trying to bolster the levee with sandbags and warn any residents who remained behind in the subdivision that flooding might occur.
No houses have been flooded yet. But authorities worry that if they cannot contain the overtopping the levee might eventually fail.
“We don’t think our efforts are going to be successful so we need to get everyone out now,’’ Parish President Billy Nungesser said.
The canal is on the east bank of the parish. The subdivision is located off Louisiana 39.
Officials said the same levee is also being overtopped further south at Scarsdale.
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2008/09/plaquemines_parish_levee_threa.html
Nothing mentioned on the talking heads cable channels.
Is it on river side or a canal does anybody know?
I don’t believe the Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for those local levees. I could be wrong, but I believe they are NOLA’s responsibility.
Thanks! They’re saying the soil was giving away. (The other station was saying it’s just being overtopped.)
It is a private leveenot federal
This one isn’t a COE levee.
Correct.
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