These are, I believe, NEW breaks. The ones that had broken and were plugged are still holding.
Water pouring into Ninth Ward; waist high and rising
10:11 AM CDT on Friday, September 23, 2005
Associated Press
Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighborhoods in a devastating repeat of New Orleans' flooding nightmare.
"Our worst fears came true," said Maj. Barry Guidry of the Georgia National Guard.
"We have three significant breeches in the levee and the water is rising rapidly," he said. "At daybreak I found substantial breaks and they've grown larger."
Dozens of blocks in the Ninth Ward were under water as a waterfall at least 30 feet wide poured over and through a dike that had been used to patch breaks in the Industrial Canal levee. On the street that runs parallel to the canal, the water ran waist-deep and was rising fast. Guidry said water was rising about three inches a minute.
The impoverished neighborhood was one of the areas of the city hit hardest by Katrina's floodwaters and finally had been pumped dry before Hurricane Rita struck...cont'd
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWL092305water.86a0c25c.html
http://www.wwltv.com/
In Texas, hurricane expected to go ashore around 4AM Sat. at Port Arthur/Beumont area as a strong Cat. 3 bordering on Cat. 4 storm.
Concerns for Galveston are that this placement will cause the water on the BAY side of the island to flood from the back side...which is less protected by walls. So although the surge will be less, it could still be very damaging to Galveston.
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