Wait, turns out New Orleans is screwed after all

[mmbt0ne]

wtf are you talking about? Take this [censored] to politics.

[sthief09]

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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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sorry just came to mind


If it keeps on rainin', levee's goin' to break,
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay.

Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.

Don't it make you feel bad
When you're tryin' to find your way home,
You don't know which way to go?
If you're goin' down South
They go no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.

Cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
Now, cryin' won't help you, prayin' won't do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.

All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
Thinkin' about me baby and my happy home.
Going, going to Chicago... Going to Chicago... Sorry but I can't take you...
Going down... going down now... going down....

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[Ed Miller]

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There are two main ways out of the city: I-10 and the Causeway (linking to I-12 north of the lake).

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Make that WERE two ways out of the city. Saw on a blog somewhere that the Causeway is destroyed.

I could be wrong. This is not written with the classic OOT snide humorous tone, just adding some news here.

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The bridge that was widely reported destroyed yesterday was the I-10 bridge east out of the city (across about a six mile stretch of the lake). So yes, I-10 is toasted. I don't know about the Causeway, but I wouldn't be surprised when all is taken into account to find that it too is kaput.

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Just as I wrote this, CNN showed footage of the I-10 bridge. It's completely destroyed.. I've never seen anything like it. It broke off in sections and some submerged and others are displaced up, down, left, and right.

[RunDownHouse]

These people just never stop. Awesome.

[Ed Miller]

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Ed, I hope your friends and family are safe down there. I have a let of relatives in Louisiana and Eastern Texas.

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My parents are fine. My mom was planning to sell her house and move to Vegas within the year. Now there will be no need for selling, and she should be out here in a week or two.

I have friends, some of whom stayed in the city, whose well-being is uncertain.

[JaBlue]

doesn't she lose a ton of money on the house that got destroyed and she couldn't sell? Or is it covered in insurance?

[fsuplayer]

i truely hope that someone living in that city has flood insurance.

[Los Feliz Slim]

Is anyone watching the CNN news conference with the NO mayor? What's the deal with the woman on her left whose face keeps moving as if she's trying to talk along with the mayor? It's freaking me out.

[CORed]

I'm glad I live where the worst weather I ever get is very rare little baby tornados, hailstorms and blizzards. The worst hailstorm I ever saw is nothing compared to a hurricane.