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now it's really serious in New Orleans
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Heutte)
Tue Aug 30 21:10:28 2005
From: Fred Heutte <aoxomoxoa@sunlightdata.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:07:41 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In an running on WWL TV right now, Mayor Ray Nagin says that
a planned sandbag drop to stop the levee breach near pump #6
at the 17th St. Canal didn't happen and the pump has failed, so=
the
probability is that the "bowl will now be filled," meaning water=
will
flood the majority of the city including the Garden District,=
French
Quarter and CBD. If unabated the water will go to the level of
Lake Pontchartrain, about 3 feet ASL, which means, for example,
9 feet of water on St Charles Street.
The mayor called the missed opportunity a "blunder" and said=
this
would unfold over the next 12-15 hours.
Now it's time to really worry.
fh
