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Thank you.
You know I wonder what exact improvements they made to the levees. I know they were only like 20 percent done with the entire project but that seems like something pretty important to work on first.
You should see his rack!
Thank you.
You know I wonder what exact improvements they made to the levees. I know they were only like 20 percent done with the entire project but that seems like something pretty important to work on first.
Corruption isn't something that just comes to a screeching halt overnight...
They really don't.
The levies were the priority, but I think the completion timeline was 2010-2011. They weren't even close to being done. They still have older, shallow levies and even earthen ones.
To address CNN's water under the levy thing, one of the NO news stations said that the report was false, that further investigation concluded it was water coming up from a storm drain.
Still a problem as that water is obviously coming from somewhere, but it's not as bad as hearing that a levee is failing.
The main failure in Katrina was that as the water came over the levees, there was just earth backing up the levees so it eroded the earth on the backside of the levee until it couldn't support the wall any longer and the wall collapsed backwards.
Basically, they are redoing all the levees by putting several feet of concrete at the base on the front and back of the levee walls, so the water that tops the levees is coming down onto solid concrete and not dirt/grass.
Well, that's good news. A levy failure would be about the worst thing to happen at this point, other than maybe a massive tornado outbreak.
They stopped running that text, BTW. I guess they heard about the storm drain thing.
Damn.
Go here.
http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/gustav.html
Look at the Fox8 feed, quite a bit of water over the Industrial Canal at the Judge Seeber Bridge.
From NOLA.com.
Good link, but I had to mute my sound. Five audio feeds is about four too many.
Well, the idea is that you'd mute all but one
Well, the idea is that you'd mute all but one
Don't laugh ... I had a split-second senior moment, too.
Blaze, in that photo...
Look at the closest corner of the levee wall. It looks like there are two leaks at the base of the wall and another near the top. I wonder if that's going to hold up.
Other notes:
* Hanna is now a hurricane and projected landfall later in the week near Charleston, SC.
* Long range forecast has what will become Tropical storm Ike coming into the Gulf of Mexico next week.
Just saw President Bush arrive in Air Force One at Lackland Airforce base for tour of refugee accomodations there.
It was pretty neat.
Dang, it's going to get interesting later.
Showing video of the Industrial Street Canal. Wind is blowing water up against the west side of the canal and its levee. East side levee wall doesn't even have water against it, that's how hard the wind is blowing.
But later as the storm moves on the wind is going to shift around and blowing west to east, and put that water against the other levee wall.... which only has earthen backing, no concrete reinforcement.
storm of the century my ass....
where the is Manny the weather guy?
Its over land and is still a 2, that's pretty freakin bad.storm of the century my ass....
Any word yet from St. Bernard or Plaquemines parishes?
That in hurricane better not up Turks and Caicos, I'm going on vacation there in freakin November.
they just had up on cnn that a ship in the industrial canal is loose and hitting the wall... not good!
TPark, you'll be lucky not to have a hurricane there while you are. Tis still the season in November. If you want a hurricane free Caribbean vacation, book after January or go FAR SOUTH, like Belize, Aruba, or St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Hurricanes almost never dip that far south.
This could just be another CNN rumor...I'm not seeing it on any of the live news feeds out of Louisiana...
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