The rupture of a 60 Meter long section of the levee caused water from Lake Ponchartrain to spill into the city-center of New Orleans; as did the storm surge- leaving parts of the city 6-20 feet under water....

That sai- the part that got me was when news reporters said teh water was "teeming with water moccassins".

For you city-slickers that don't know what a water mocasin is; it's the same thing as a cotton-mouth. Just imagine a black (or grey or sandy looking) rattle snake, with no rattle and a bad/aggressive attitude; that prefers water, but can live on the land indefinitely...

They're gonna find snakes all over New Orleans now..

I guess I'm cancelling my Thanksgiving trip... I usually stay in that Holiday Inn next to the Riverwalk; or the one next to teh SuperDone with the big clarinet painted down the side... I'll stay high & dry this year, in the D.F. Dubya...

 

 

Dude- the person that stumbles across this pipe will have a bad farking day...

 

I am (currently) scheduled to be there on business Sept. 9th......

 

I was at "Ground Zero" last week looking at a construction project -- Pass Christian, MS. My guess is that the project I was inspecting is no longer standing, since it was only about a mile off the water. The house was on a channel that led directly out to the Gulf, and the guy (the builder and future homeowner) already had his new, large, pleasure boat tied up to a nice treated lumber slip he had constructed.

I'm wondering how much, if anything, is left of the stuff I saw while driving on Highway 90 from Gulfport back to the New Orleans airport (?).

Oh yeah -- about the snakes. When I lived back in Kansas City, MO, back in the early 90's, they had this big flood that washed away a local graveyard. They had all these old caskets floating around and washing up into peoples yards. THAT WOULD ****** FREAK ME OUT! Yikes!

 

I love how all these people on the news are walking around in the water with a big ole' grin on their face but they don't realize they're walking in **** water.

 

I arrived TDY at Gulfport in 1969 just 3 days before Camile hit. I could not believe the total distruction and loss of life. It was an experience I do not want to relive, or wish on anyone... My heart and prayers go out to those who experienced Katrina.. Makes me want to dislike the Katrina I know.

 

80% of Nawleans is under water. That's alot of damn water. How will they get rid of it. That will take months!

 

How many people died? Earlier this morning they were reporting around 45 people or something like that? Any new numbers?

 

I read in Harrison? County, wherever Biloxi is, they are looking at 80 dead. It will be a large number of dead by the time this is over with.