Gustav

[AlamoSpursFan]

Especially when there's the news of Bristol Palin's second pregnancy.

















Zing.

Alleged.

And you call yourself a journalist.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

I don't actually buy that argument, BTW, but it's still a funny line.

[AlamoSpursFan]

And what's with those Palin names? Track? Bristol? I'm guessing old man Palin's a NASCAR fan.

[ChuckD]

Doesn't look too bad to me. I'd say the evacuation was unnecessary.

Scroll up a few posts. High tide isn't for three and a half hours, yet.

[Ginofan]

I'm hardly the political type AHF, I was just remembering him coming out with that FEMA guy 3 years ago with his sleeves rolled up ready "to get down to business" and just found it a bit humorous. Sue me.

Water is rolling over the Industrial Canal in the middle as per WDSU

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Alleged.

And you call yourself a journalist.

Journalists don't report the news, they make (up) the news.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Journalists don't report the news, they make (up) the news.

I honestly don't have the time to argue this again considering I'm in my own newsroom making all this Gustav up.

[AlamoSpursFan]

Journalists don't report the news, they make (up) the news.

"When news breaks, we fix it!" -- Lisle and Hahn billboard, mid '90s IIRC.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

Man the video feed really looks bad from the Industrial Canal. Water is just pouring over.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

I honestly don't have the time to argue this again considering I'm in my own newsroom making all this Gustav up.

Just giving you a hard time man, no hate intended.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Just giving you a hard time man, no hate intended.

I know.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to write this story about Obama being the father of Bristol's child.

[SpursWoman]

I think this levee expert they are talking to on NO's Fox8 has a great name for journalism .... Sam Scandaliato. I think he missed his calling.

[MaNuMaNiAc]

I know.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to write this story about Obama being the father of Bristol's child.

Now THAT would bring the country together, wouldn't you say?

[ChuckD]

Uh, oh. They didn't say what levy, but CNN is reporting water coming from UNDER the levy. Police have fled the area, and advised CNN to do the same. Someone named Tuchman reported this.

[T Park]

He's in a room that doesn't look to be that big, that is crammed full of people, electronics, and video lights that give off a ton of heat.

He's probably just hot, can't we go five minutes without some political shot?

Apparently not.

[SpursWoman]

Uh, oh. They didn't say what levy, but CNN is reporting water coming from UNDER the levy. Police have fled the area, and advised CNN to do the same. Someone named Tuchman reported this.

That must be what AHF was talking about. Uh oh.

[T Park]

Uh, oh. They didn't say what levy, but CNN is reporting water coming from UNDER the levy. Police have fled the area, and advised CNN to do the same. Someone named Tuchman reported this.

Yeah the is really gonna hit the fan here pretty soon...

[BacktoBasics]

You guys have ruined this thread for me. I'm telling a mod and then maybe an admin.

[ChuckD]

You guys have ruined this thread for me. I'm telling a mod and then maybe an admin.

Aw, don't go, B2B. Manumaniac and I have agreed to put aside our obvious differences of IQ (his: room temperature, mine: Triple 9 society level) and just talk storm.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

You guys have ruined this thread for me. I'm telling a mod and then maybe an admin.

Which mod?

[T Park]

You guys have ruined this thread for me. I'm telling a mod and then maybe an admin.

[Ginofan]

How can there be water UNDER the levee? I thought these things were built deep into the ground? You would have to see the water seep up through the ground, and distinguishing between that and an already saturated ground? I don't get it.

[BacktoBasics]

Which mod?

Moderator SpursWoman then the mod named LJ and if I have to I'll tell the admin Kori and if he doesn't listen I'm gonna find out who owns this place. I know they don't appreciated this kind of .

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Moderator SpursWoman then the mod named LJ and if I have to I'll tell the admin Kori and if he doesn't listen I'm gonna find out who owns this place. I know they don't appreciated this kind of .

[ChuckD]

How can there be water UNDER the levee? I thought these things were built deep into the ground? You would have to see the water seep up through the ground, and distinguishing between that and an already saturated ground? I don't get it.

One of the faults found after Katrina was that the levies weren't sunk deep enough. When the ground gets super saturated, the water can force it's way underneath, and undermine the levy. Instant failure and flood.

I don't think it's "seeping". It would look more like a large spring forming, with the water sort of "fountaining" up.