Re: Wait, turns out New Orleans is screwed after all
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What's going on with all the people in the Superdome?
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That's a good question. My guess is that they are all being kept inside until the city gives the ok for people to return.
It looked until late last night that that part of the city had escaped flooding. Unfortuantely, I heard a news report at around midnight PDT from a hospital not too far from the Superdome. They said that a levee holding back the lake in the north part of the city (the lake is actually part of the Gulf of Mexico... they just call it a lake because of its shape) had broken, and lake water was now rushing through the city. The woman said water was rising at a rate of an inch every five minutes, and they had six inches of water on the second floor. (FWIW, the lake is heavily polluted, brackish water, so it will corrode anything it touches.)
So that part of the city I guess is flooded as well with lake water as of last night. I'm fairly certain the people in the Superdome will be sitting tight there probably for a week. Be glad you aren't in there...
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