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To: NormsRevenge
Here is a good website with eyewitness accounts and stories from the storm:

Nola.com

I think I heard on the radio that the lower 9th Ward is flooded. Does anyone know?

28 posted on 08/29/2005 9:04:09 AM PDT by jonatron
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To: jonatron
Here are some excerpts:

Floodwaters are starting to become a problem in Orleans Parish, with 6 to 8 feet of water collecting in the Lower 9th Ward, state officials said at a briefing Monday just before 9 a.m. ...

On the north side of Judge Perez Drive (In Chalmette), waters had risen as high as 10 feet, he said. Boasso, who lives in Chalmette, said he has been in touch with Council Chairman Joey DiFatta...

Even Entergy without power

Power outages seem to have have hit almost everyone in the city, even Entergy New Orleans' command center at the Hyatt Regency Hotel next to the Superdome.

Source

29 posted on 08/29/2005 9:13:10 AM PDT by jonatron
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