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just heard it on the news

the lake ponchatrain levee has also broken they expect 9 feet of flooding right now

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damn, and the worst will be within the next hour or so.. i've heard.

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does anyone know when the storm surge actually happens? i have been hearing it happens AFTER the eye wall passes

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they said the worst part will last until about 11:00 o'clock

check out this new orleans weather forum

http://www.wwltv.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=37d65c376f671954c2fb00658b13c1f6

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IF there is a storm surge it WILL be after the eye wall passes.

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Location: south florida

crap, i thought the worst had passed...

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There are reports of 9 feet of water in the 9th ward. There are people on roofs and officials think there may be people stuck in their attics.

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Originally posted by saturnalia
crap, i thought the worst had passed...

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From Times-Pic:

9:34 - Reports of widespread flooding now, although not at the doomsday scenario levels. But we've got several hours to go before we've seen the worst past. Scanner traffic is busy with calls of rising water, including 18 inches and rising against the levee in the French Quarter. Dispatchers questioning officers on the scene, trying to determine if there is a break in the river levee, or if water is pouring over the top. Independently, NOLA has received a flooding alert for the French Market area.

Fairly heavy street flooding in front and behind the Times-Picayune . . . water appears about knee deep, whipped by the steady wind into whitecaps and breakers. Water is hubcap deep on the furthest vehicles in the employee parking lot, and rising quickly.

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Originally posted by JungleBunnie
officials think there may be people stuck in their attics.

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I need more info on this levee break on the lake. Where? and is there any link?
thanks

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The only levee break we have heard about is in the 9th ward.

this is a quote from wwltv.com

"A LEVEE BREACH OCCURRED ALONG THE INDUSTRIAL CANAL AT TENNESSE STREET. 3 TO 8 FEET OF WATER IS EXPECTED DUE TO THE BREACH...LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ARABI AND 9TH WARD OF NEW ORLEANS."

edit because jared just said the news said something about a possible levee break on the lake in east jefferson.

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I am watching a live stream on wdsu and they said the pumps have failed. Is this true? if so, FUCK!

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I heard there was something wrong with the pumps but that they would have them running again by 3.

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Originally posted by JungleBunnie
I heard there was something wrong with the pumps but that they would have them running again by 3.

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From CNN:

The Lower 9th Ward, on the east side of New Orleans was under five to six feet of rising water after three pumps failed, according to WGNO reporter Susan Roesgen, who is with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. She said New Orleans police had received more than 100 reports of people trapped on their roofs.

The Associated Press reported that entire neighborhoods along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain were flooded, and residents had scrambled onto the roofs of their shotgun-style houses.

"I'm not doing too good right now," Chris Robinson told the AP via cell phone from his home east of the city's downtown. "The water's rising pretty fast. I got a hammer and an ax and a crowbar, but I'm holding off on breaking through the roof until the last minute. Tell someone to come get me please. I want to live."

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