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The Louisiana Governor is reporting that the levees have been breached and the water is rising one foot per hour. How much worse it gets is anyones guess.
That is what I was figuring. Oh man....my heart goes out to those folks.They pump the water back into Pontchartrain.
Obviously, they are useless until the storm surge subsides.
The Louisiana Governor is reporting that the levees have been breached and the water is rising one foot per hour. How much worse it gets is anyones guess.
Yeah, it will probably do hundreds of dollars worth of damage in Biloxi.
(Just kidding, I hope that they all make it out all right with as little damage as possible.)
What can you say? This is unbelievably horrible.
not really... especially for the elderly or sick...
They are all electric pumps that pump water through the canal system to the outlying areas - basicaly they pump water East.
Problem is they can only do about a 1/2 inch of water an hour, adn with massive flooding - the electricity goes out and the pumps go underwater - since they are below sealevel. Huge catch 22.
Cant start them without electricity and when they are underwater. Cant get them out from underwater until they are pumped clear.
Water is 7 feet over HWY 90(beach hwy) and has inundated the bottom floor of the Beaux Rivage according to NBC News.
Dude, if the Superdome goes Texas Stadium on them with all those people inside, they're screwed.
Plus you got the levees busted and water rising, not a good place to be.
This is the Catch-22.
There's no quick way to pump out the flooding once it occurs. The city could be underwater for weeks.
Even with no roof, the dome is probably the safest place in NO.
Well, the city being underwater can be corrected with time. Hopefully, the loss of life will be mitigated.
cnn etc reports the Superdome's dome is coming apart, daylight and rain coming in, refugees herded to area under concrete terraces.
That's what I was thinking. The foundation of that thing is amazing.
Luckily the Superdome is 25 feet above sea level, so flooding isn't as much of an issue.
I guess the biggest concern would be roof failure. That's disaster-movie bad.
That is ed up. Hwy 90 sits up above the beach in MS. The entire beachfront is going to be wiped out. Hopefully some of those casinos will go away permanently.
WWL says 3 ft. of water on the road outside the Superdome.
f*ck! WWL also reporting 12 ft. of water in some parts of NO already.
Pumps are now failing in NO
That's freaky.
The pumps fail in normal storms. This isnt a suprise. They really dont have a place to pump to for a day or two anyway.
That's why the pumps are failing, the machines are revolting.
WWL: "HUGE layers of the roof peeling off the Superdome."
What is a parish?
Well, there are alot of concourse areas and rooms/boxes for people to go to inside the Superdome.
I figured it was a subdivision (IE: Leon Valley, etc.).
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