CNN: water in N.O. rising 5 inches per minute

[tgnyc]

Two levee breaches. Reprter says city may be back to square one by noon.

[orion9941]

1. Isn't that peachy.

[justiceischeap]

2. Good news is, it should only take 2 days

to pump out the water. I heard that at the airport on my way back from NOLA.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. Hmm...

They've got most of the pumps back on-line now, right? So theoretically it should be much faster (assuming Rita doesn't knock out the pumps again)

[theHandpuppet]

11. No, most of the pumps are working way below capacity

That's what I heard from that LSU Prof who's a hurricane expert. Some pumps still not working at all.

[raccoon]

16. why did the some of the pumps quit working when N-O flooded a few

weeks ago? Were they just overwhelmed by the volume of water?
Or their power source failed? Does anybody know?

[HereSince1628]

3. that doesn't sound like overtopping...I hope it's wrong

Early reporting is frequently wrong, I can hope.

[Mr_Spock]

4. caca doodoo

That sucks, though it's not unexpected.

[tocqueville]

5. WDSU : 30 feet breach

[Pirate Smile]

7. 5-10 inches per minute

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. "5-10 inches per minute"

hmmmmm


that's 600 inches per hour or fifty feet per hour....

something doesn't compute...

[Pirate Smile]

15. That was what they were reporting. I know, I was going "10 inches

per minute"? :crazy:

[tgnyc]

8. CNN reporter: it's not the rain, it's the wind

[Sgent]

9. After the breaches are repaired

The pumps can got 4in in hour 1, and 1 in/hr after that.

The pumping system for NOLA is truley amazing.

[justiceischeap]

12. German Engineering!

It's that German team that came in and got that shit moving.

[Spazito]

13. Exactly! From what I understand only 20% of NO's original pumps

were up and running, it was the 'mobile' pumps brought in that drained the city prior to this latest flooding.

[dave123williams]

14. ...and after all that pro-Bush MSM reporting on how the levees were fixed.