Mayor Ray Nagin ordered an immediate evacuation Sunday for all of New Orleans

[Koyaanisqatsi]

I don't know...like I said, I'm not sure it really matters where the breach is, the lake has more than enough water to flood the whole city...

[Chemical Ollie]

The good news: looters will have to use scuba gear to steal peoples TVs and DVD players

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Koyaanisqatsi
I don't know...like I said, I'm not sure it really matters where the breach is, the lake has more than enough water to flood the whole city...

If its one of the north-south thingys used to drain the city, then they wouldn't have to plug the ever-widening gap. They'd just need to block off the outlet into the lake since the structure is still stable there.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Yeah, it sounds like it's around the red dot I put on here:

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I reckon it's quite possible that the death toll will run above a hundred for this, though i guess it's a lot less than people were fearing yesterday.

[Drake Tungsten]

The breach is near the number 5 on this map...

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf?/washingaway/nolalevees.html

[DRoseDARs]

CNN just finished talking to someone working at the Tulane hospital in downtown NO (the CBD) and says the breach is on the NO side of the levee and water is rushing down Canal Street, "white caps on the water" in her words. F***.

[Frozzy]

Yeah... levee breaches... not quite the best thing...

[DRoseDARs]

And this is happening in the dead of night, so the response has to wait a few hours before any real effort can go into stopping water from flowing into the canal from the lake (or from the river, which ever it is supposed to drain into).

Edit: Looking at the full-size version of the pic Drake posted, apparently it supposed to drain into both the lake and the river...

[Dis]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


It's a bit early. I'm not a gloom-and-doomer, but my guess is that this storm will easily surpass Andrew in cost, both financially and in terms of human lives. And that is pretty significant.

yeah it was a pretty significant storm. No doubt about that. I just can't help but laugh when I hear about a storm killing tens of thousands in the U.S. Yes Hurricane Mitch did that to a 3rd world country. But we are no 3rd world country.

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More mudslides and stuff in central america i guess, the land goes up quicker from the coast.

[DRoseDARs]

FOX News just had this lovely graphic (someone else took the screenshot):

[Frozzy]

Yeah, Pontchartrain now goes as far south as route 90 on Spaced's map

[Dis]

What are you doing watching Fox news? And shouldn't they be calling French quarter, Freedom quarter?

[DRoseDARs]

I wasn't. As I said, "someone else took the screenshot."

Though as I was flipping through channels on a Cowboy Bebop commercial break I noticed FAUX was going over the business impact. Anheiser-Busch (sp?) is already sending 10,000 boxes of clean bottled water to the area.