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EAST BANK OF ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON REMAINING IN THE METRO AREA ARE BEING TOLD TO EVACUATE
WWLTV ^ | 8/30/05 | WWLTV

Posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:03 PM PDT by va4me

****ALL RESIDENTS ON THE EAST BANK OF ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON REMAINING IN THE METRO AREA ARE BEING TOLD TO EVACUATE AS EFFORTS TO SANDBAG THE LEVEE BREAK HAVE ENDED. THE PUMPS IN THAT AREA ARE EXPECTED TO FAIL SOON AND 9 FEET OF WATER IS EXPECTED IN THE ENTIRE EAST BANK. WITHIN THE NEXT 12-15 HOURS****


TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: katrina; neworleans
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To: va4me
The only bright spot is that the flooding of the main city didn't happen during Sunday night. At least there is a chance for most to get to safety.

Cities built below sea level, next to a great river and on the ocean are like those built on active faults -- human folly.

61 posted on 08/30/2005 6:53:37 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Thanks for the map....really puts it into perspective!!! SCAREY!


62 posted on 08/30/2005 6:54:16 PM PDT by BossLady
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To: KC Burke

They were just talking with an LSU professor on CNN, he is an expert on hurricanes and their impact on the NO area. I caught him on Sunday say that he expected a 50/50 chance of total loss of NO.

Tonight he was talking about the need to build refugee camps to house a million people. I wonder how long before we see the military air-dropping meal packs and bottles of water into the area. Numerous reports out of the hotels about folks being stranded with no food/water/working toilets.


63 posted on 08/30/2005 6:55:52 PM PDT by va4me
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To: jasoncann

Is the lower right part of the map (darker shade) the flooded portion of the city?


64 posted on 08/30/2005 6:56:12 PM PDT by jveritas (The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
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To: jveritas

That is not a current photograph, but rather a composite of old satellite images. The shade variation is due to the different times or cameras that took the photos. Pretty much the entire area you see is flooded.


65 posted on 08/30/2005 6:59:04 PM PDT by AntiGuv ("Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick)
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To: nj26
"When this is all done, a lot of questions need to be asked why the governor didn't enforce a full, mandatory evacuation (with public transportation for the poor) out of the city."

I'm not strictly sure of the situation in NO, but hurricane science usually is not able to give enough advance notice of landfall locations for large scale evacuations. In other words, you usually would have to make the decision to evacuate before you really know whether or not it's necessary. A heavy decision with a large metropolis.

66 posted on 08/30/2005 7:00:25 PM PDT by Sam Cree (absolute reality - Miami)
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To: KC Burke

You mean like San Francisco?


67 posted on 08/30/2005 7:01:18 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Even when a dog discovers he is barking up a wrong tree, he can still take a leak on it!)
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To: mdmathis6

amongst other obvious poor locations dictated by stubborn resistance to the inevitable


68 posted on 08/30/2005 7:03:22 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: WestSylvanian

How would the Mississippi claim N.O. if the breach is on the lake side?


69 posted on 08/30/2005 7:03:49 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: Sam Cree

I suppose the real question is why there isn't a plan in place to plug the levee. It's not like this scenerio hasn't been tossed around for decades.


70 posted on 08/30/2005 7:04:13 PM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: mdmathis6

Jueneau would also qualify as residing in an avalanch path


71 posted on 08/30/2005 7:04:19 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: js1138
I suppose the real question is why there isn't a plan in place to plug the levee.

plug it with what?

72 posted on 08/30/2005 7:04:55 PM PDT by Tiger Smack
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To: js1138

Plugging a levee in the aftermath of a hurricane isn't something that exists in a preconcieved plan form that can be plucked of a shelf. Didn't you watch the levee after levee fail in the '93 floods with little impact to the efforts of thousands?


73 posted on 08/30/2005 7:07:01 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: js1138
"...suppose the real question is why there isn't a plan in place to plug the levee. It's not like this scenerio hasn't been tossed around for decades."

Yes, I agree - or any other sort of plan to deal with a major hurricane strike on NO. A lot of work should have been done on how to handle it. Very unsettling that it wasn't.

74 posted on 08/30/2005 7:09:25 PM PDT by Sam Cree (absolute reality - Miami)
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To: My Favorite Headache

>>>I asked this on another thread...how is it Bourbon Street is dry? And the rest of N.O. seems to be under water? Will this water now just rush and sink into Bourbon?>>>

That's the one place that needed a good washing. My biggest memory of New Orleans is the smell of urine.


75 posted on 08/30/2005 7:10:54 PM PDT by sandbar
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To: SkyPilot
The Governor did seem way, waaaay out of her league. Now she is a basket case. According to her bio, she is a former teacher who likes to watch "Steel Magnolias" over and over again. The State needs a Gen Patton now, not a weeping ex-union delegate.

The same people doing the looting are the ones that put the imbecilic rat mayor and air-head rat governor in office. I have been saying for years that VOTER COMPETENCY TESTING would solve most of our problems. Sadly it will not happen.

76 posted on 08/30/2005 7:11:21 PM PDT by StockAyatollah
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To: va4me

My opinion is that anybody who can get to the Mississippi River levee should get there and start walking north. Once they get to Gramercy it looks like they can drive out.

The levee was the only place of refuge during the 1927 flood.

This is not the same levee that broke - that's the lake levee - and I believe that the river is not high, in fact it's low. I just checked NOAA web site - if it's accurate, then it's safe to walk on top of the Mississippi Rive levee.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/lix/html/rvs.shtml


77 posted on 08/30/2005 7:14:37 PM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: popdonnelly
"And I doubt the National Guard is going to help the looters carry the loot to high ground."

I think you are right. I don't think the looters will ever see a picture on their new TV sets.

78 posted on 08/30/2005 7:14:41 PM PDT by lstanle
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To: va4me

American Pompeii


79 posted on 08/30/2005 7:15:37 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: nj26
They also stayed behind to loot the million-dollar homes in expensive neighborhoods, according to CNN.

If I owned a home in the Garden District, I would have stayed just for that reason, or I would have paid someone else to stay and guard my property, with guns.

There is a very little middle class in NO. Most people are dirt poor, lucky to make minimum wage, with no hope for a future. They resent the 'old money' whom they believe is responsible for selling drugs to the poor.

In such a place, looting would be expected. If you have property, you'd better be prepared to protect it.

80 posted on 08/30/2005 7:20:50 PM PDT by japaneseghost
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