New Orleans is flooding again
Rainwater and storm surge and the power is still on but it is grim.
Yahoo/AP has the story:
Rita Inflicts Fresh Floods on New Orleans
Hurricane Rita's wind-driven storm surge topped one of New Orleans' battered levees and poked holes in another Friday, sending water gushing into already-devastated neighborhoods just days after they had been pumped dry.
An initial surge of water cascaded over a patched levee protecting the impoverished Ninth Ward, flooding the abandoned neighborhood with at least 6 feet of water.
"Our worst fears came true," said Maj. Barry Guidry, a National Guardsman on duty at the broken levee.
Leaks beneath another levee that was repaired with rock and gravel after Hurricane Katrina flooded homes with at least a half-foot of water. Meanwhile, wind-whipped waves pushed water from Lake Pontchartrain over a seawall and rain runoff with no outlet pooled in city streets.
Evacuees from the misery-stricken city learned of the new flooding with despair.
"It's like looking at a murder," Quentrell Jefferson of the Ninth Ward said as he watched the news at a church in Lafayette, 125 miles west of New Orleans. "The first time is bad. After that, you numb up."
Just Damn! And the forecast is for another couple years of strong seasons before the cycle starts to mellow out again. We are entering this cycle and it will get worse for a year or two. We have had these cycles before -- the historical record is quite good...
Posted by DaveH at September 23, 2005 10:00 PM