Tulane University Medical Center might need to evacuate by air.

[crispini]

On CNN now. :scared: Water is rising. Patients on ventilators still in hospital. They would have to have FEMA fly in via helicopter. Majority of patients would have to be evacutated by air.

Tulane is in the Central Business District.

Breach in Levee on 17th street canal in Lakeview is 2 blocks long. Water is rising so fast "I cannot begin to describe how quickly it's rising."

[tridim]

1. Damn. There's a 2 block long breach in the levee

The entire lake is going to empty into NO. This is serious stuff.

[Kenroy]

2. rising

one inch every five minutes earlier - now rising more quickly. Already up to the top of the first floor of the hospital.

[crispini]

3. Water rising an inch every five minutes.

Lake Ponchatrain is going to empty into New Orleans.

[Horse with no Name]

4. Oh Lordy

Evacuating a hospital in an emergency situation is never good.
They always lose some of the most fragile.:cry:

[earth mom]

5. OMG!

:cry:

[LeahD]

6. Then the harrowing video footage I saw tonight

on CNN is just the beginning. I'm also wondering about all of the rain farther north.... all that water eventually ends up in the Mississippi River.

[shraby]

8. I was thinking about all the rain runoff going into the

Mississippi too, and farther east the runoff into the Ohio which has been known to flood.

[faithnotgreed]

7. i cannot even imagine

prayers for everyone