Areas of Louisiana that Katrina had spared are now under water

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBM77U30EE.html

Corps of Engineers Tries to Stop Flooding of New Orleans; Residents Rescued Outside City

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Storm water pushed by Hurricane Rita poured into New Orleans for a second day Saturday, and engineers said they need at least two days to pump water from the most heavily flooded neighborhoods after they plug a series of levee breaches.

"The surge got higher than we expected in the canal," said Dan Hitchings, an engineer overseeing recovery operations for the Army Corps of Engineers. "It's still spilling in there this morning."

The corps planned to drop sand bags and boulders into several large gaps that appeared Friday in a part of the Industrial Canal levee that had been patched after Hurricane Katrina. Rita's storm surges eroded part of the levee, sending water rushing into the city's Ninth Ward neighborhood, which already was badly damaged and mostly abandoned. snip

South of New Orleans in low-lying Jefferson Parish, a storm surge of 6 to 7 feet swamped some neighborhoods that escaped much of the flooding from Katrina, said Albert Creppel, a constable in the town of Jean Lafitte. Creppel took his first boatload of people to higher ground about 2 a.m.

"The water is pouring in back there," Creppel said. "We've got breaks all over the levies."

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1. Do You Think That This Was Intentional.....

lets be able to decimate all of NO. Now even the ones that could come back won't be able to either. We can condemn their houses too.

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2. forgive me -

but I wish for only one property to be flooded and destroyed - the home of that awful Sheriff who ordered his folks to fire at those trying to evacuate over the bridge.

Not really (can't bring myself to wish harm to others) - but if one property had to get flooded...