Water Overflows New Orleans Levee Again

[Nbadan]

Water flows over New Orleans levee
Army engineer: 'It's a wait and see and hope for the best'
Friday, September 23, 2005; Posted: 10:36 a.m. EDT (14:36 GMT)

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Water washed over a levee in New Orleans' hard-hit 9th Ward on Friday as Hurricane Rita swept towards the region, the Army Corps of Engineers said.

Heavy rain and intensifying winds from the storm had reached the city Friday, threatening the city's already battered city levees.

Mayor Ray Nagin said Thursday that levees breached when Hurricane Katrina hit the city on August 29 have been shored up ahead of the new storm.

Workers have been bolstering the levees with sandbags and bringing in extra portable pumps. (See what's being done to shore up the levees -- 1:45)

Nagin expressed confidence that the levees would hold.

"The Army Corps of Engineers has done some work to assure us that they can handle that type of storm surge in the current condition at our levees," Nagin told reporters....

CNN



"Nobody could have forseen the Levee's breaking (Again!)! Ooopppss!"

[Nbadan]

New flooding begins in New Orleans
By MIC E ROBERTS and BRETT MARTEL
Associated Press Writers

NEW ORLEANS -- Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighborhoods in a devastating repeat of New Orleans' flooding nightmare.

"Our worst fears came true," said Maj. Barry Guidry of the Georgia National Guard.

"We have three significant breeches in the levy and the water is rising rapidly," he said. "At daybreak I found substantial breaks and they've grown larger."

Dozens of blocks in the Ninth Ward were under water as a waterfall at least 30 feet wide poured over and through a dike that had been used to patch breaks in the Industrial Canal levee. On the street that runs parallel to the canal, the water ran waist-deep and was rising fast. Guidry said water was rising about three inches a minute.

The impoverished neighborhood was one of the areas of the city hit hardest by Katrina's floodwaters and finally had been pumped dry before Hurricane Rita struck.

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[Dos]

"Nobody could have forseen the Levee's breaking (Again!)! Ooopppss!"

Nagin expressed confidence that the levees would hold.[B]


lol...

[CharlieMac]

Nagin expressed confidence that the levees would hold.[B]


lol...

"Hey everybody, come back into the city!" Totally safe, I swear!"

[Vashner]

The Coast Guard commander should be fired for oversteping his bounds and telling the Mayor to STFU to me and listen punk your gonna....

Or something like that.. with the smell of a cheap cigar burning in some office...