Turn on CNN. They are doing a much better job.
I haven't said anything previously because I know a lot of people like Shep Smith, but he's a party boy and his reporting from New Orleans reflects that.
If freepers knew the information would be worse today, he should have known and not kept saying "we dodged a bullet".
No one knew about the levees breaking, but he was obviously unprepared and not knowledgeable about how the aftermath of a storm is always worse over time.
I witnessed firsthand the Hurricane Floyd disaster in Bound Brook, New Jersey a few years back and in that instance, the worst flooding came hours after the Hurricane had passed. As water from the Hurricane drained into the Raritan & Millstone watersheds and travelled downstream, it started to back up near Bound Brook. It took hours to slowly but surely get to the breaking point and finally coupled with a high tide a few miles downstream at New Brunswick, it overflowed the floodplains and inundated a good portion of the area.
What a freakin' moron. The water is rising in New Orleans because water flows to the lowest point possible, and the city is below the level of the adjacent Lake Ponchartrain. The water from the lake is going to keep flowing into the city until the water level in the city is the same as the water level in the lake.
I don't think you need to be an engineer to understand some very basic elements of fluid mechanics. If Shep would just go home and try to fill the north half of his bathtub, he'd understand what the hell is going on in New Orleans right now.