Posted on 09/24/2005 9:58:36 AM PDT by Howlin
Trinity River is flooding, below the Lake Livingston Dam. Immediately evacuate!
Video of Port Arthur and Beaumont on Fox News now
Wow, brand new and it's out. What a shame.
live shot on fox showed huge sandbags being droped by helicopter onto a levee..which one i have no clue they cut away
Oh no Mr.Bill, it's the DRAMA QUEEN!!!
This may be the reality...
Shep is on. He has on a khaki hat this afternoon.
LOL!
I have a long article from The New Yorker about the Mississippi and the Atchafalya, and how long the Corp has been trying to reroute it. Let me know if you want me to email it to you. You have to subscribe to New Yorker so I can't post the link. It is an excellent summary of what they are trying to do.
Heck, last night he said Rita was going to be the WORST storm EVER.
FUDGE! I missed the president unloading from the plane because of that idiot SHEP the drama queen....DAMN!!! DAMN!!
Laf. area - trees down, some w/out elec., no real damage
New Iberia - flooding is the major problem, some houses w/out roofs, lots of trees down
everything south of that is major flooding 6+ feet of water in houses, people on rooftops waiting to be picked up, and that is the places that they can get to!
Not sure if this graphic has heights or not. Try it and see. I have one that does but there are a lot of levees and they're all different heigths. it's too big to post too. and I don't have a direct link.
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf?/washingaway/goingunder.html
There's another possibility too. If just one of the locks' gates are open, then it wouldn't change the wording of the article necessarily, and they would be worrying about it, but there wouldn't be a flood from that cause yet.
Not sure it matters.
The London Canal breach repair has been undermined by percolation and is leaking. Per janetjanet998 here, 6 to 8 inches of water in some neighborhoods of downtown NO.
Another report has sand boils uder downtown levees.
Not trying to be alarmist, but fixing a breach under pressure is a very difficult proposition in any weather.
No panic, no hysteria, but NO stands a good chance of flooding again.
Thank you for the information. It is very, very interesting.
And thanks to all of you providing information on the flood situation in New Orleans and environs.
The live images of Lake Charles with water still seemingly everywhere are a bit troubling.
A good friend of mine and former Freeper calls them "the Hive". Pretty much conveys the same idea.
Thank you so much for the info on Breaux Bridge. I feel much better now.
New Iberia is 23 feet ASL on the south side, 16 feet ASL on the north.
Right now, anecdotal reports have flooding from Lake Charles to New Iberia to just south of Houma.
I doubt that's rain water, which means it came ashore with velocity.
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