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To: dirtboy

WDSU says they're going to have helicopters lift 3000-lb sandbags and drop them where the breach is in the levee to fix the leak.

They also said there's been a report of a couple of people dead in the dome. I guess that wouldn't surprise me if there are elderly and sick people there.

They also said people have driven up to the dome and gotten out and tried to enter the dome for safety. And how ironic it is that these people had a car, so they could have gotten themselves out of town.


833 posted on 08/30/2005 9:30:12 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: Abigail Adams
WDSU says they're going to have helicopters lift 3000-lb sandbags and drop them where the breach is in the levee to fix the leak.

That will only work once the water level is nearly equalized on both sides of the levee, or else the inflowing water will just move them aside. And they will have to helicopter in enough materials to fill a 200-yard gap. And there is no point pumping until that gap is filled, or else the water just comes right back in.

860 posted on 08/30/2005 9:33:52 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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