OMG. .. pump fails and sandbagging effort fails

[kbm8795]

water expected to rise at least three feet above sea level in Jefferson Parish and the East Bank - expecting water to rise up to 12-15 feet in those areas.

They are advising people to move up to second/third floors or evacuate...but how long..how many can go any higher?

[Roland99]

1. Is this from streaming video anywhere? Which one?

[Poll_Blind]

4. It's from WWL...link inside

here

PB

[wanpete]

2. did the pumps actually fail? I heard they cannot run until they have

electricity.

[julialnyc]

3. and I can't imagine they would think of getting electricity going

with so many people walking through the water with wires and power lines under them/

[Horse with no Name]

5. The Governor said today

that it was going to be a long time before they had electricity in New Orleans again.
That is why she ordered a total evacuation of the city.:(

[dbonds]

6. I wonder how much there will be left to save.

Homes submerged in water have to be torn down most likely, at the very least gutted. Same with business downtown. Will they try to rebuild in the same spot or move the whole city to a safer place. With global warming you never know if this is the new normal or not. I would think it would be cheaper and safer to move the city.

[Horse with no Name]

10. Doesn't sound like there will be much

However, they were emphatic today that it would be rebuilt.
However, I saw an article written a few years ago talking about this situation and it said that it will be hard to get the funding to rebuild it because this same scenario WILL play out again.
It might be 100 years but it will happen again.
I'd hate to think that there would never be another French Quarter, Mardis Gras or Bourbon Street.
I was looking at my Pat O'Brien's hurricane glasses and Mardis Gras beads today thinking that those are the only relics I have of a city that I loved.
It's like losing a friend.:cry:

[htuttle]

7. They had some working generators on some of them

But they no longer appear to be working.

[John Q. Citizen]

8. From wwl

****ALL RESIDENTS ON THE EAST BANK OF ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON REMAINING IN THE METRO AREA ARE BEING TOLD TO EVACUATE AS EFFORTS TO SANDBAG THE LEVEE BREAK HAVE ENDED. THE PUMPS IN THAT AREA ARE EXPECTED TO FAIL SOON AND 9 FEET OF WATER IS EXPECTED IN THE ENTIRE EAST BANK. WITHIN THE NEXT 12-15 HOURS****

[Synnical]

9. From NOLA.com

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html#075216


Water rising at 17th St. canal
Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.

Mayor Ray Nagin has announced that the attempt to plug a breach in the
17th Street canal at the Hammond Highway bridge has failed and the
rising water is about to overwhelm the pumps on that canal.
The result is that water will begin rising rapidly again, and could
reach as high as 3 feet above sea level. In New Orleans and Jefferson
Parish, that means floodwaters could rise as high as 15 feet in the next
few hours.
Nagin urged residents to try to find higher ground as soon as possible.