[bjs1779]

WWL is broadcasting and just said the Mississippi River has breeched the levees and holes all over the levees.

If that is true, they have to blow out the gulf levies.

[NonValueAdded]

Are you absolutely sure it is a Mississippi levee and not the existing breach on the Lake?

[Shermy]

"WWL is broadcasting and just said the Mississippi River has breeched the levees and holes all over the levees.

If that is true, they have to blow out the gulf levies."

Reporters make mistakes. If the Miss. River levy breached...well, that's that.

[Fitzcarraldo]

If that is true, they have to blow out the gulf levies.

Why is that?

[Enchante]

Does anyone know if a lot of small boats can be brought from up and down the Gulf coast for rescues??? Sounds like they've got to get every last human out of NO asap. I know it's very different circumstances, but if the Brits could improvise and rescue 340,000 soldiers out of Dunkirk in 1940 (under German fire), I would think there ought to be a way to have a similar armada of small boats taking people out of NO tonight..... but I'm just an armchair meditator 1500 miles away, I'll be the first to admit it!

[Knitting A Conundrum]

That is downriver of New Orleans in Plaquemines parish...