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Levee fails in New Orleans
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| [NFC]Wave |
| quote: | The City of New Orleans Is Devastated. Those were the words of Mayor C. Ray Nagin and based upon a major breach of a levee system, water is flowing into New Orleans flooding it beyond recognition and could very well destroy New Orleans, Jefferson and the surrounding areas.
In a most frightening interview with WWL TV, Mayor C. Ray Nagin gave the worse-case scenario of events that anyone could possibly imagine. In the beginning of the interview, he stated that New Orleans is devastated.
Of most importance is the breach of the levee between Jefferson and Orleans Parish.
“We probably have 80 percent of our city under water with some sections of our city the water is as deep as 20 feet”.
Both airports are underwater
The twin spans are destroyed.
The Yacht club is burned and destroyed.
Mayor Nagin also stated he was not sure of the structural soundness of the highrise. He stated that it is possible that the highrise bridge in east New Orleans could be unstable.
The Mayor also stated that all of Slidell (a city which he has no jurisdiction) is under water. Nagin also stated that there was no clear path in and out of New Orleans, that I-10 is underwater.
Nagin stated that FEMA is coming into town tomorrow and that New Orleans will need to obtain major federal help to rebuild the city of New Orleans.
As corroboration, a spokesperson from Tulane University said that they were about to move all of the patients from the hospital due to rising water at one inch every five minutes. She said white water was pouring down Canal Street (which would be from Lake Ponchatrain-related to the breach in the levee) from the canal separating the two parishes. |
Source :http://www.bayoubuzz.com/articles.aspx?aid=4864
Here is a link to a feed from the local news: http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmP...082905mayor.wmv
Here is a link to footage of damage: http://www.2theadvocate.com/
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| ChemEnhanced |
| If only I was an adjuster in New Orleans.....man the hours I could bill. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
If only I was an adjuster in New Orleans.....man the hours I could bill. |
You can bet "the mother corporation" will be putting out a call for people to go down and help out before too long. |
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| arek |
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| Tygon |
It's a shame that incidents like this bring out the worst in people... looters and fighting... how rediculously sad is that?!
I guess one's true nature shines through in the worst of situations... |
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| awishabear |
I think the most disturbing factor of all this is that when the water washes away (whenever that ends up happening), there could be like, old coffins and tons of bodies lying around... with New Orleans being so far below sea level, a minor flood could dislodge the mausoleums and stuff, and it could get nasty.
I've been looking at pictures on msnbc.com and they're just trippy how much water is around there. ick. |
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| kabelicious |
And the worst thing about New Orleans?
When it floods, coffins "pop up" out of the ground or from underneath crypts due to the amount of water pressure pushing them upwards as the groundwater level rises in correlation to the flooding. Or they disintegrate and....you don't want to know the rest.
Whoever gets cemetery duty is going to be one lucky son of a gun. :(
It's a damn shame the amount of damage that this has done to the French Quarter - so much history there and whoosh, all washed away or destroyed beyond repair. |
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| kabelicious |
| quote: | Originally posted by awishabear
I think the most disturbing factor of all this is that when the water washes away (whenever that ends up happening), there could be like, old coffins and tons of bodies lying around... with New Orleans being so far below sea level, a minor flood could dislodge the mausoleums and stuff, and it could get nasty.
Ditto. :)
I've been looking at pictures on msnbc.com and they're just trippy how much water is around there. ick. |
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| awishabear |
| And I didn't get to go before it all got washed out... *Sniff* it's one of my goals to hang out there sometime (HUGE anne rice fan - she just happens to base nearly all over her vampire novels in New Orleans, or at least have part of the action there)... I wanted to see if it's always like she described it. Now i'll only see a remake. |
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| nadezhda |
| it's horrible. i, too, wish i could have gone before this happened because i've been wanting to go forever, to see if it's as gothy and creepy and wonderful as all that i've read. and i REALLY wanted to see the aboveground cemetaries but they'll probably be totally destroyed. sigh. i can't imagine what it would be like to live there and have this happen. awful. :( |
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| Jayx1 |
| "New Orleans is sinking and I don't wanna swim" |
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| VERTiG0 |
HERE I AM
DAH DAH
DAH DAH DAH
ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE
I got up at 7:30am on Monday and had that song cranked, in a loop, while I was waiting for the floods to come so I could see alligators and red fire ant balls working together to eat the exhumed centuries-old corpses that would be floating in the toxic soup.
Alas, I was disappointed. |
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