Posted on 09/24/2005 9:58:36 AM PDT by Howlin
WDSU.com live (N.O. area):
LA 39 north & south is flooded & impassible (St. Bernards)
US 51 ditto
Slidell - Palm Lake Subdivison is flooding, streets & homes
Chest high water in some houses
Water across LA 433
US 11 closed at foot of bridge
I-55 offramps to US 51 closed
LA 315 closed
LA 56 closed South of 51
LA 1, including Grand Isle closed
St. Bernards 4-7 feet, Terrebone 8-10 feet
From the last thread:
Perry called the National Guard and Feds in on Monday, which is why they were in place by Thursday. That's where I got my Monday thing from.
Does anyone have a link to the evidence on when Blank-O called in the Feds? I need to ram it down the throat of a liberal.
Jarjar Binks (D-Mars) blathering on about the Fed responsibility for the fuel situation.
In any event, the logistics of responding to such a large scale disaster make it impossible to have the equipment, material, people and supplies there instantly from the feds in any case. That will almost always take 72+ hours for such a large disaster.
The Federal government did well. Brown, who despite his background did excellent last year with the several hurricanes that hit Florida and gained invaluable experience that could have been used here...he was used as a scapegoat and that was one thing I did not like.
OMG, now Shela Jackson Lee is repeating everything the others repeated 10 times.
End this thing!
Looked closed.
Because in the south there are more fire ants than either of the former. And for some reason, they like electric power lines.
(Answer only partially facetious)
Storm Surge is upon us, with some rain flooding, I think.
A whole lot of fire ants.
My guess is they were showing some of the sheet steel pilings; either at the 17th Street Canal (where the water looks to be a couple feet below the top of the temporary "sandbag" repair); or the London Avenue canal.
The sheet steel pilings are temporary devices to keep the canals below the level of lake Pontchartrain.
Guess what happens to power lines that are underground when it floods.
Lines on poles are a lot easier to replace.
I'm having a problem with the second pic - the group shot. Took 3 mins. to load on DSL.
Another news conference in 4 hrs?? Man, they love these news conferences.
NO idea why this moron was allowed to speak at this conference, other than for political purposes.
Lines on poles are a lot easier to replace.
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plus, where would birds sit? :-}
Likely follows the same pattern as in the US. Buried in the cities, overhead in rural settings.
The river usually stands at 14 feet above sea level, while Lake P usually stands at 1 foot above sea level. To move a ship from one to the other you need a lock, a box with doors on both ends. Ship sails in, doors close, water is pumped in or out to match levels with the far side, the door opens, and the ship sails out. One of the locks between the river and Lake P is broken, per anecdotal live news reports and per the NO Times Picayune, with the doors in the open position. Trying to find out which one.
Got a point there - they make great dove gathering points. :-D
I finally was able to get the image on post 11
Am running broadband and seemed to take forever.
Came out at 811.99K
Kinda in excess of the reccomended 50K
I'm not having a problem loading, with post #11. Though I do have a cable connection...
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