The levy was breached!
Water poured over a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city’s lowest-lying neighborhoods and heightening fears that Hurricane Rita would re-flood this devastated city.
“Our worst fears came true. The levee will breach if we keep on the path we are on right now, which will fill the area that was flooded earlier,” Barry Guidry with the Georgia National Guard.
Dozens of blocks in the Ninth Ward were under water as a waterfall at least 30 feet wide poured over a dike that had been used to patch breaks in the Industrial Canal. On the street that runs parallel to the canal, the water ran waist-deep and was rising fast.
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.
Mitch Frazier, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers, said water is rushing over part of the levee that previously was breached.
This was not totally unexpected. I am just glad that they didn’t allow the residents back.
September 23, 2005 - 12:46 PM on September 23rd, 2005
Just when you think New Orleans couldn’t be screwed any worse…
September 23, 2005 - 01:03 PM on September 23rd, 2005
1, sure it can. Leave the same people to be in charge of the rebuilding of the levees that were in charge of seeing the levees were strong enough to prevent a flooding disaster.
talk about being stuck on stupid.
September 23, 2005 - 05:58 PM on September 23rd, 2005
the whole damn state should be rebuilt under govt control; this time with all the dems in jail for protective custody! the feds will rebuild properly! ps. prisoners-have your way with what put you there!!!!
now you can consider this as lesson I; on getting out of stupid!
September 23, 2005 - 08:14 PM on September 23rd, 2005
The levee was breached becuase the eco-freaks from EARTH JUSTICE and SIERRA CLUB LEAGAL DEFENSE FUND worried about the invisible levee guppy and so they sued and stopped the levee repair:shock:
September 24, 2005 - 11:22 PM on September 24th, 2005
The flooding of New Orleans isn’t exactly a surprise. I saw a tv program about it on either PBS or ABC months ago. Too bad Ray Nagin, and Gov. Blanco weren’t stuck on stupid the first time around. Apparently when W called Nagin and told him to evacuate the city, this time he listened. Who knows? Maybe Ray isn’t as stuck on stupid as he acted earlier. The jury is still out on Blanco.