flooding not as bad as feared, french quarter "dry"

[steve2470]

city not filling up like a bowl per scott wells of fema. from what all of you are saying, scott wells is lying or delusional. Trust me folks, I am only transcribing what Scott Wells said

[Big Kahuna]

1. The French Quarter is never dry!

(Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!) :)

[hunter]

17. Where's my 99 cent can of beer?

If ever there was a time...

Keep the penny.

[CityZen-X]

2. They Need The Backdrop

for the next episode of Cops!

[tjdee]

3. The French Quarter is also above sea level.

:(

[Kolesar]

11. The surface is about 6 feet above sea level

according to a graphic in yesterday's Plain Dealer. edit: Lake Ponchartrain is 1 foot above sea level and about 11 feet above sea level during a hurricane. The hurricane has past, so Ponchartrain has probably settled below that 11 foot line.

[donheld]

12. Since when?

Did it rise in the last few day's?

[tjdee]

19. See post 11...

Or, the post above yours.

The French Quarter is one of the higher places in NO from what I saw--which would explain why it's drier than the other areas if that info was true. I think I saw the Plain Dealer graphic the poster was talking about, which placed the Quarter a few feet above sea level.

But it seems the info in the OP is wrong (see the post above yours, some of the others in this thread).

[donheld]

21. I sit corrected. I'm to lazy to stand.

I could a swore when i was there it was below the river.

[Thtwudbeme]

4. Oh. Thank God. The bars are safe.

Woo hoo.

[Junkdrawer]

5. CNN just had a reporter on from the French Quarter with water up...

to mid thigh...said it was dry yesterday...

[markus]

6. I think theh world you'r elooking for is "lying"

If there is a 300 foot breach in the levee at the mouth of the 17th St. Canal, and 6-8 feet of water at the foot of Tulane Ave., then the quarter's turn is coming.

Hell Treme didn't flood in Besty (I don't *think*) nor did Marigny. It's coming at the quarter from both directions.

[bj2110]

9. This thread is misleading... The French Quarter is near the river, and

contrary to most areas, the ground actuall rises to the river, and the waters are held back through the levee system. The river did not have much rise in level, therefore, areas closest to the river are the highest in the city. Water is coming from the east and the north... the quarter should be fine...

[Connie_Corleone]

7. WTF??

That's not what I've heard all day from the local news there. What's he been smokin'?

[Solly Mack]

8. uh, I just saw coverage of the French Quarter with about 3-4 foot of water

and rising - on CNNi

[Eloriel]

23. Absolutely. the reporter was at street level yesterday IN the Fr Qtr

and it was wet because of the rain, but NOT flooded. The same reporter today was at least up to his knees due to the flooding of the city.

I don't know where some people get some of their crap.

[Walt Starr]

10. Then why the hell would the governor order a complete evacuation

of everybody from the city?

And why is there video of reporters in the French quarter with water up to their hips?

[VADem11]

13. You mean Sen. Vitter?

[hatrack]

14. "Remain calm! All is well!'

Cue flattened Kevin Bacon graphic. :eyes:

[Walt Starr]

18. Ask and ye shall receive!

[hunter]

15. Hell on earth to ever call the French Quarter "dry."

The pigs are flying. Hell has frozen over. This is the United States on drugs with the eggs in the frying pan.

[Karenina]

20. Like this?

[Dogmudgeon]

16. The French Quarter may be high, but it's not dry

I'd tend to think that they would be flooded later than sooner, but I'm sure there will be significant flooding.

The area the French Quarter is built on is higher than most of the rest of New Orleans, but that's only by relative measure. It's still low enough to be flooded, and it will be no easier to escape from than any other part of the city.

--p!

[NYC]

22. I heard that said

by a man's voice. I wasn't sure who he was. I was listening to http://www.wdsu.com/video/4907831/detail.html

At the time I heard it, it was a contradiction of what I had heard earlier.

[expatriate]

24. WDSU isn't accurate at this point

they have been replaying an interview with the mayor that was given yesterday, early. At that time he mentioned that the French Quarter was still "relatively dry".

It is no longer dry.

[NYC]

25. Thanks.

It was all I could get. I did hear the mayor's speech repeated, and knew it was a repeat.