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Tue Aug-30-05 01:20 PM
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CNN's Zarella reporting from the French Quarter says water is rising |
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Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 01:23 PM by KoKo01
He's outside the hotel he stayed in downtown throughout the storm and says it was dry around him when the storm was over, but that now the water is rising (I think he said a foot an hour) with the levee break.
Sand Bags aren't holding it because it's getting up to the hotel windows. He says other areas in Old NO that were dry are now filling up with water.
I know the Military was supposed to be trying to fill in the broken levees with sand bags but haven't seen any photos of the work. People need to be evacuated from the city if the water is rising like this..how will they get them all out, though. Helicopters can't transport that many. It's very scary...
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:22 PM
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1. Rising water is SO yesterday! |
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:33 PM
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:22 PM
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2. especially considering the French Quarter is |
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filthy.
I'm so glad that i'm not in that mess. And My heart goes out to those who are, and have no choice.
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:27 PM
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12. Well, of course the French quarter is filthy! It's |
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FRENCH!!!
:crazy: rocknation
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:44 PM
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24. *lmao* no no that's not the reason..... |
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it's filthy because it gets taken over by drunken college kids on a regular basis, puking and pissing all over the place.
if it was filled with dog-poo i might have agreed with you. sadly you are more likely to encounter human poo.
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:22 PM
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3. The National Guard would be helpful |
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:29 PM
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14. They're fighting over there so they don't have to fight the hurricanes |
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over here. :eyes: I hope Vacation boy gets slammed hard on his decision to send the NG to Iraq instead of keeping them home for emergencies such as this! But I won't hold my breath.
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:22 PM
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4. Nooooooooooo. Not the French Quarter. |
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So. Yesterday's sense of relief was misplaced.
Isn't good government supposed to ANTICIPATE this kind of thing?
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:25 PM
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10. I really hate that the Quarter might be gone or so damanged... |
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..as to never be the same again.
We don't have any good government. We're stuck with a son of a bu$h instead.
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:24 PM
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5. If you physically can't get to the broken section of the levee.... |
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...how can you repair it?
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:25 PM
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6. there were reports of them dropping sandbags from helicopters to |
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:29 PM
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I haven't seen film of this, but I'd suspect that this kind of sandbagging (and any kind actually) would be useless. The current from the lake flooding into the city will do nothing more than wash the sandbags into New Orleans. Unfortunately, the best time to repair the levee is when the water in New Orleans and the lake equalize and there is no longer a current into the city.
That is, of course, unless a painful (but in the long run extremely wise) decission is made about the future of New Orleans.... :-(
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:33 PM
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20. I just saw someone talking about it here. |
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So I don't know any details about if it was truly real, or when they would be doing it.
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:25 PM
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7. Isn't there a separate floodwall around the French Quarter? |
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Saw some video before the storm hit of a floodwall being erected.
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:25 PM
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8. I'm listening right now (11:22 am PST) to WWL... |
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A doctor from an animal hospital is reporting that his home in Menniery (sp?) Rd, overnight went from being dry to being flooded this morning with 5 ft. He was told it could go as high as 4 more ft...
He felt it was a definite levee break related flooding...
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:29 PM
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Tue Aug-30-05 04:19 PM
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26. Thanks! I wasn't sure...some of this feed's sound is breaking up... n/t |
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:31 PM
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18. Maybe more levee's are breaking as the day goes on. There must |
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be something that can be done. Engineers must be working on it but if the system of levee's breaks down they need to get those folks out of the downtown area somehow. But how? And with all the gas and oil floating around in that water..maybe bringing in power boats wouldn't work because it could spark fires in the water.
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:25 PM
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:-(
Can't they get some boats in there to get those people out? Rafts, dinghys, row boats ... ANYTHING! Drop them in by helicopter. Why is there no plan in place for something like this??
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:33 PM
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19. Rubber rafts would work. That way engine sparks wouldn't ignite the |
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oil and gas that's probably in that flood water inside the city. Couldn't military transport drop self inflatable rafts?
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:55 PM
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25. There was going to be a plan, but Shrub cut the funding to the planners... |
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:26 PM
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Why are they useing sandbags? shoudn't the use something more like concrete?
Why isn't more being done?
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:28 PM
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If this keeps up the only safe place in the city will be the |
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back part of Audobon park. It is the highest place in the city and one of the only places above sea level.
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:30 PM
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17. Monkey Hill is probably underwater. Does anyone know about the zoo? |
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:28 PM
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13. From all I have been reading and seeing on TV, |
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it sort of seems that New Orleans may become another Atlantis.
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:36 PM
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22. I was wondering how Zarella was going to get out of NO |
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why hasn't help been dropped from helicopters to the people in the Dome?
water, food, medics?
is it because most of them are not white?
I keep wondering how the couple on their honeymoon are doing in the Dome. will they survive to have a marriage?
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Tue Aug-30-05 01:42 PM
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23. I remember a "expert" on cnn saying there was a 50/50 |
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chance that the city of NO would be a total loss. Yesterday it looked like the city would be spared... But now, with the lake draining into a city bellow see level,... no power to pump the water out... and estimates of no electricity for up to a month... could he have been right? Is it possible that a whole city will be destroyed from this storm? Unbelievable. This is truely a horrible time for the people of NOLA. :(
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