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When the Levee Breaks...
Aug. 30th, 2005 07:09 pm
Dear old city... The levees are breaching in Louisiana - Jefferson Parish, which is where we lived (Metairie, Kenner, Jefferson, Gretna) & now New Orleans itself are under between 7 & 15 feet of water. A breach in the Jefferson Parish levee led to more failures along the wall, and the pumps that run pretty much continuously have stopped. So the water is rising.
Still watching CNN on & off. A little ticker passed by 'Snakes & Alligators May Be In The City'. Martial law has been declared somewhere - they're shooting looters.
It was kind of funny, watching the Doppler pictures of the path of the actual hurricane - it looked like it was heading straight for New Orleans, and then it was sharply diverted towards Mississippi. Almost like someone shoved the storm eastward. Someone's still watching out for the Crescent City, but they forgot about the levees.
Still watching CNN on & off. A little ticker passed by 'Snakes & Alligators May Be In The City'. Martial law has been declared somewhere - they're shooting looters.
It was kind of funny, watching the Doppler pictures of the path of the actual hurricane - it looked like it was heading straight for New Orleans, and then it was sharply diverted towards Mississippi. Almost like someone shoved the storm eastward. Someone's still watching out for the Crescent City, but they forgot about the levees.
