After:
Note the area in the first photo indicates the area of breach. The 2nd shows it.
After:
Note the area in the first photo indicates the area of breach. The 2nd shows it.
Anybody know where the intercoastal waterway is? They're saying that's where a big breach is.
Great post.
according to that pic water has another 10/15 feet to rise before the water level in the city and the water level in the canal are the same.
This was in an AP article, not sure of the time stamp:
http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/12508263.htm
"Officials planned to use helicopters to drop 3,000-pound sandbags into the breach, and expressed confidence the problem could be solved within hours."
Has anyone heard of ANY effort to even start this undertaking? This sounds like more bluster.
Is that Lake Ponchatrain at the bottom? Is the lake draining into the city?
Lake P. is clearly more than a few inches high per those pics, but not by too much. Looks like 3 to 4 feet higher than normal, tops. The key is the two buildings still standing immed to the lower left of the red roof marina.
I still think that bridge could be the key to damming up that hole. You'd have to airdrop a fill cofferdam into the canal on the other side of the 200' breach though, and the assets necessary to do so may not come online early enough to prevent levels from equalizing. Still, that's a chokepoint, in more ways than one.
Cool use of Google Earth. I was going to do some of that when and if I had locations for the before and after photos.