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Damn if that bridge got wiped I'll be amazed.
I-10 and Elysian Fields, isn't that right at the 610/I-10 interchange?
Supposedly the bridge part (Challmette to Slidell) was destroyed. Unconfirmed.
I10 and Elysian Fields is underwater.
Damn if that bridge got wiped I'll be amazed.
I-10 and Elysian Fields, isn't that right at the 610/I-10 interchange?
Eastbound interchange, but I think it intersects south of there too.
don't know if this has been posted yet.
wow. intense stories going on CNN guys. People with severed limbs and everything. Horrible.
Bad news on CNN -- a Tulane University Hospital official says the Lake levee has a two-block long breach and they have 6 feet of rising water around their building. Said it was rushing down Canal St.
Water is rising at 1 inch every five minutes.
My aunts house is gone, my uncle's house is probably gone. My grandma's house is probably in decent shape.
Did you catch where they said the breach was?
Yeah, its near downtown
canal that is suppsoed to take water north to the lake is overrun and the levee burst
Right down the center of the town
I thought I heard 17th street -- that seems to make sense.
This could make things much worse.
Holy cow - I am listening to the lady from the hospital. This is going to be horrible. The water has risen six feet in an hour. If it gets to the second floor, that's where their backup generators are -- they have a lot of critical care patients who need the power. She is saying they are trying to get in touch with FEMA to evacuate the hospital (1000 patients) by air from the heliport on top of the building.
Yeah, that was recorded almost an hour ago -- the Corps of Engineers is supposed to make a statement once they figure out what's happening.
Is the breach 2 blocks WIDE?
That's what I heard. Can't channel flip much now -- only CNN is live.
breach is 200 ft long on cnn.com
"New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin confirmed the breach in a local TV interview. City fire officials said the break was about 200 feet long in the levee surrounding the 17th Street Canal."
When you hear people say that the water came up from nothing to 6 ft. in their homes in less than 5 minutes, the levee breaks make sense.
Mayor of New Orleans says that 80% of his city is underwater, up to 20 ft. in some places.
Damn.
Officials in New Orleans say 80 percent of the city remains underwater. Crews continue working to rescue more people trapped in the attics of their homes. The city of Slidell is almost entirely underwater, as are the southernmost parishes -- especially Upper and Lower Plaquemines, where Hurricane Katrina first landed on Monday. --WDSU Anchor Norman RobinsonThe extent of casualties is still unclear in New Orleans, but in neighboring Mississippi, officials know that at least 80 are dead. The death toll is expected to rise as the recovery effort continues. On the Gulf Coast near Biloxi and along the shoreline, the damage is almost unfathomable, officials there said. "It's complete devastation," Gulfport, Miss., Fire Chief Pat Sullivan told The Associated Press. --WAPT-TV, Jackson, Miss.
Tom, what was expected was far worse than what is happening in NO right now. Believe it or not.
On the Today show this morning, Brian Williams was in the French Quarter and said the water was rising.
You know, the thing that really amazes me is the fact that this could have been so much worse. I think the damage estimates on Katrina were on the light side, and this coudl rival Northridge and Andrew.
How can you say that? 80% of NO is underwater, with the water rising. The entire city of Slidell is underwater.Tom, what was expected was far worse than what is happening in NO right now. Believe it or not.
And they really haven't been able to get in the hardest hit areas yet.
I guess you could say it wasn't as "bad" as the doomsday scenarios where all the buildings in NO collapsed, but it's looking pretty friggin' bleak from where I sit right now. Think about it - 40,000 homes underwater. How many of those have people inside that the authorities have no way of getting to until they get the water out (which is still rising)?
THe 40,000 homes underwater is just in the 9th Ward.
AHF, New Orleans 'barely' got catagory 3 winds. As bad as you see that flooding, if you throw catagory 5 winds into the mix you would have seen much more destruction. After seeing what cat 3 winds did to the dome, I'm positve cat 5 winds would have pulled the roof off.
Also, you would have seen a larger storm surge come through. Its bad that the water is rising now, but had the surge been with cat 5 winds, it would have all come at once.
I saw a report that at least 2 people have died at the Superdome
Manny - I grew up there, I knew what the expectations were in a storm like this. Just because something worse than Brian Williams or Paula Zaun predicted, doesnt mean it was worse than expected.
People thought they were out of the woods cause it wasnt raining - but people that have lived there and know the area is under the most danger from the levees bursting and the threat from the second biggest contained lake in the US.
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