Thanks Howlin :)
BUMP!
I am leaving for a while.
Please put your heads on your desk until the next monitor, Gabz gets here!
:-)
Talk softly among yourselves!
The Corps of Engineers has admitted to "seepage" under the sandbags at the London Canal breach into downtown NO.
The same outfit that said a "trickle" was coming over the 9th Ward levees earlier.
Once water finds a way through to the downstream face of an earthen or concrete dam (or levee) you have a raft of problems, that often do not go away until the water is at the same level on both sides.
Also, about a third of the Rita rain footprint is being dropped in the Mississippi River watershed. It will take time to work it's way to the river, and then more time to flow down to NO, but the Times Picayune has reported that a river lock is open to Lake Pontchartrain.
You can't write off downtown NO to another flood yet, but there is a war going on there, and the enemy is multiplying by the hour.