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To: WestCoastGal
Yep...

The levees will be tested.

May be old news, but ABC just had the mayor of NO on, via telephone, and the mayor is getting word that some of the Levees at Lake Pontchartrain have been breeched.

742 posted on 08/29/2005 5:46:29 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Freedom Needs A Soldier { Wisc. })
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To: Northern Yankee

I think Shep realizes now that this storm is still packing a punch


749 posted on 08/29/2005 5:47:32 AM PDT by LadyBuzz
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To: Northern Yankee
"some of the Levees at Lake Pontchartrain have been breeched."

Unfortunately the worst part of this thing is still to come over NO.

Also, Harrigan needs to go inside now!!

797 posted on 08/29/2005 5:54:46 AM PDT by WestCoastGal (Thank you JR for pulling this limping team across the finish in 9th place)
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To: Northern Yankee

Levees breached on the lake means the pumps can't drain the city, at least not the ones that pump into the lake.

There are some that pump into the Mississippi, they will have to do all the work.

There will be deep water in the lower neighborhoods, which is where the poorest people live, in the crummiest structures, the ones that have termite damage.

Bad news. Pray.


882 posted on 08/29/2005 6:02:51 AM PDT by CobaltBlue (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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