per cnn: levee breach at industrial canal in NO
correctiion: officials now calling it an "over topping" and workers are working on it in lower 9th ward - water rose 5-10 inches in 5 min. levee is broken.
-also : problem western side chintillie (sp?) west NO
I think that would be Gentilly
looks like st bernards back under too.
yeh, some of same areas under water and some new areas in and around NO, and, correction to the correction:
Corps hopes to plug levee breaches today (Sat 9/24)
Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Dan Hitchings said crews were expected to drop sandbags into place by helicopter Saturday to slow the flooding of the Lower Ninth Ward caused by two breaches along the banks of the Industrial Canal.
Hitchings said there were two breaches on the east bank of the canal, one about 100 feet long another about 40 feet long, that dumped and estimated four to five feet of water into the area.
hoping a re-flush does no extra harm and may sweep out some of the residual foulness.
bill, i think the job as head of fema is filled. or are you angling for spokesperson for barbara bush?
I was thinking that too but unfortunately the lower ninth had not really been thoroughly searched for dead bodies because in that neighborhood the flood waters had just barely receded by the time the second flood came. I guess though one could argue that there would not be as much raw sewage in the mix, since the people producing it are one way or another, all gone. What a fuckin mess. A lot of interesting imaginings about the future of New Orleans though. I heard Wynton Marsalis on CNN suggest a Bourbon street with serious jazz clubs instead of, and these are his words, "drunken frat boys" roaming wild. We can all dream I guess. A better New Orleans will not be just about what is now an inevitable removal from the list of world murder capitol
i was just saying there is a big toxic problem there now from leaching buried and spilled waste. anxiously waiting results on whats stronger cypress and old pine or petroleum waste, mold, rot, etc.
Dave thought you meant in the Travis Bickle sense of "we need a rain to wash the scum and the filth off these streets..." Bush, Bickle, Barbara, Travis...
i know, it could be read both ways. i forgot about the TB quote. but bb 'tude is recent enough to recall. i was just thinking the army core of engineers might take advantage of a second rinse cycle if it fell upon them.
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correctiion: officials now calling it an "over topping" and workers are working on it in lower 9th ward - water rose 5-10 inches in 5 min. levee is broken.
-also : problem western side chintillie (sp?) west NO
- bill 9-23-2005 6:29 pm
I think that would be Gentilly
- jimlouis 9-24-2005 9:51 pm [add a comment]
looks like st bernards back under too.
- bill 9-24-2005 10:09 pm [add a comment]
yeh, some of same areas under water and some new areas in and around NO, and, correction to the correction:
Corps hopes to plug levee breaches today (Sat 9/24)
Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Dan Hitchings said crews were expected to drop sandbags into place by helicopter Saturday to slow the flooding of the Lower Ninth Ward caused by two breaches along the banks of the Industrial Canal.
Hitchings said there were two breaches on the east bank of the canal, one about 100 feet long another about 40 feet long, that dumped and estimated four to five feet of water into the area.
- jimlouis 9-24-2005 11:55 pm [add a comment]
hoping a re-flush does no extra harm and may sweep out some of the residual foulness.
- bill 9-25-2005 12:01 am [add a comment]
bill, i think the job as head of fema is filled. or are you angling for spokesperson for barbara bush?
- dave 9-25-2005 12:29 am [add a comment]
I was thinking that too but unfortunately the lower ninth had not really been thoroughly searched for dead bodies because in that neighborhood the flood waters had just barely receded by the time the second flood came. I guess though one could argue that there would not be as much raw sewage in the mix, since the people producing it are one way or another, all gone. What a fuckin mess. A lot of interesting imaginings about the future of New Orleans though. I heard Wynton Marsalis on CNN suggest a Bourbon street with serious jazz clubs instead of, and these are his words, "drunken frat boys" roaming wild. We can all dream I guess. A better New Orleans will not be just about what is now an inevitable removal from the list of world murder capitol
- jimlouis 9-25-2005 12:35 am [add a comment]
i was just saying there is a big toxic problem there now from leaching buried and spilled waste. anxiously waiting results on whats stronger cypress and old pine or petroleum waste, mold, rot, etc.
- bill 9-25-2005 12:42 am [add a comment]
Dave thought you meant in the Travis Bickle sense of "we need a rain to wash the scum and the filth off these streets..." Bush, Bickle, Barbara, Travis...
- tom moody 9-25-2005 3:33 am [add a comment]
i know, it could be read both ways. i forgot about the TB quote. but bb 'tude is recent enough to recall. i was just thinking the army core of engineers might take advantage of a second rinse cycle if it fell upon them.
- bill 9-25-2005 7:31 am [add a comment]