Fox: 80 percent of New Orleans under water, up to 20 feet deep in places

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

NEW ORLEANS — Rescuers along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast pushed aside the dead to reach the living Tuesday in a race against time and rising waters, while New Orleans (search) sank deeper into crisis and Louisiana's governor ordered storm refugees out of this drowning city.

Two levees broke and sent water coursing into the streets of the Big Easy a full day after New Orleans appeared to have escaped widespread destruction from Hurricane Katrina (search). An estimated 80 percent of the below-sea-level city was under water, up to 20 feet deep in places, with miles and miles of homes swamped.

"The situation is untenable," Gov. Kathleen Blanco (search) said. "It's just heartbreaking."

One Mississippi county alone said its death toll was at least 100, and officials are "very, very worried that this is going to go a lot higher," said Joe Spraggins, civil defense director for Harrison County, home to Biloxi and Gulfport. In neighboring Jackson County, officials said at least 10 deaths were blamed on the storm.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167781,00.html

[neuvocat]

1. That whole city was sinking slowly to start with.

I hate to say it but I'm not so sure there will ever be a New Orleans anymore.

[MichaelHarris]

2. Have

they blamed it on Bill Clinton yet?

[TheDebbieDee]

3. You know, I've been waiting to hear a wing-nut say that........

It hasn't happened yet, but you know it will! It's just a matter of time.

[MichaelHarris]

4. It's because

Clinton outsourced sand bag making.

[TWiley]

7. Well actually, Lip-Balm did yesterday.

Oxycotten boy was blubbering about the Clinton family vacationing in Hawaii. He boo-hoo'ed that they had been there the entire month of August. Why has he remained silent, and not helped out in New Orleans he whined.

That moron must have forgotten that he is RETIRED.

I do hope Bill Clinton leaves the bushtapo alone with this one. It REALLY pissed me off the way he was sleeping around with the shrubs during the tsunami. Then he abandons Jimmy Carter during the Pope's death and supports the Jackass Family. Unbelievable. I really felt he turned his back on the Democratic party that time.

[greyl]

5. No need to falsely credit fox.

This was known 12 hours ago.

[PDittie]

8. I heard the NO mayor say these very words

MONDAY EVENING in a video interview with WWL.

[TWiley]

6. The Fox News staff are LIARS.

I would not trust anything they said, even if it was true.