Floodwaters will likely be pumped out of New Orleans sooner than expected

[DoYouEverWonder]

Maintenance crew from Cinergy Power repair electricity lines in New Orleans. Floodwaters will likely be pumped out of New Orleans sooner than expected, but the US administration is reeling from Hurricane Katrina's aftermath as it prepares to commemorate the September 11 terror attacks.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050910/photos_ts_afp/050910155247_dqzxrk1x_photo5


To FEMA and all the naysayers around here who tried to convince people last week that it would be impossible to pump out NO in less then 8 weeks, you know where you can go stick it.

[Hamlette]

1. ah, the irony of it, Bush can't fix the second tragedy because he needs

to take time out to commemorate the first.

[blackcatpgh]

3. damned ironic

you'd think that they have milked all the political/PR points out of sept.11 that they could have by now, but i guess they're squeezing the sponge at this point.

[soup]

5. yep. ham on wry n/t

[uncle ray]

2. quite the deduction the captioner and yourself are making

what, are they pumping water through the power lines? there are still lots of variables that could effect how long it takes to pump the water out of NO, the levies may fail in other spots, the pumps will likely continue to fail, etc. i wouldn't be telling anybody to stick it quite yet.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. The picture and caption were together on Yahoo

I would assume you wouldn't be restoring power lines in a section of town that still had water.

They have already gotten rid of about 50% of the water and the Mayor is now estimating that it should be done in about 30 days to get ALL of it out. That's a lot faster then FEMA, the M$M and the rest were trying to convince everyone of.

[uncle ray]

6. i saw no link to the mayor's words in the yahoo link

which you pretty much posted in it's entirety. just because the caption writer says the water will be pumped out quicker, doesn't make it so.

i'm sure the writer is an authority on pumping large amounts of water.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. Front page story on Yahoo - please educate yourself

before you make rude comments. Thanks.


Also Friday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers projected it will take a month to dry out New Orleans, which had been 80 percent covered following the storm and levee breaches. The Corps previously said it could take 80 days.

The news came as authorities shifted most of their attention to counting and removing the dead, after days spent cajoling the living to get out of a city beset by fetid floodwaters and scattered fires.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hurricane_katrina;_ylt=AsIk1h2oZ7HmFRca7fuBha2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--