Water rising in New Orleans as levee systems fail

[steve2470]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12513654.htm

By Natalie Pompilio

INQUIRER STAFF WRITER



NEW ORLEANS - They always said it would happen.

Doomsday, experts predicted, would roar into this below-sea-level city and its neighboring area on the winds of a strong hurricane, turning southeastern Louisiana into an Atlantis.

Homes and businesses would be washed away, the death toll could number in the thousands and as many as a million could be left homeless.

It would, they said, suddenly end life in the Big Easy as many know and love it.

But when that day arrived -- as it did this week -- it was much quieter, much less dramatic.

It came as a byproduct of Hurricane Katrina, a Category 4 storm that barreled through the Gulf Coast Monday, shifting in the early morning so New Orleans was no longer its direct target.


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[Halliburton]

1. well

Brain Williams was saying that this thing wasn't that bad at all. The situation in New Orleans and the Superdome is absolutely chaotic.

[SidDithers]

2. Thank you for posting...

Kick.

Sid

[spuddonna]

3. I'm watching the aerial on WWL...

They were panning near the Mississippi River and away, and the water level looks the same... It's so bad...

[spuddonna]

5. New story from Tom Melius, from the Metairie Animal Hospital...

He had made it home last night, near Battery Park I believe he said, and he went to bed last night - fine. Woke up, stepped out of bed into water. Within minutes, it became 3 ft high, when he left it was about 5 ft he estimates...

[Kolesar]

4. People and pets stranded on roofs

And the water is still rising. What a horror.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. Steve! Do you EVER sleep?

I love the informative posts but sweetie, tell me you're taking good care of yourself.