Louisiana is set to be *smacked*

[Darth K'Trava]

It's looking pretty bad. No, I'm not there; I'm safe in Atlanta. The national news channels have been showing a lot of footage of the French Quarter and downtown. With the exception of Poydras St. which looks like it got hit by a massive tornado, those areas don't look too bad, but I think this belies the actual severity of the damage. The little bit of aerial footage that they've shown of the rest of the metro area leads me to believe that the flooding is widespread and severe. I hate to speculate too much on limited information, but it looks really bad.

The above just applies to the New Orleans Metropolitan Area. The areas to the east that got hit by the eye, I can't even imagine.

-Ryan

Ryan: Hope you have a place to go back to when it's all said and done! And glad to hear you're safe! Perhaps, until you can get back home again, you should relieve some tension at Dragoncon which starts in a few days...

 

[BiggusGeekus]

New Orleans as it looks now:

 

[Dinkeldog]

We got a post at NTL that Scutisorex is safe and sound, too.

 

[BOZ]

part of the superdome's roof collapsed - i hope no one got hurt when that happened. also, the stadium (like most of the city) is surrounded by water.

 

[DaveMage]

New Orleans as it looks now:

Wow.

 

[RyanL]

it could be getting worse. From what I'm hearing, a stretch of levee approximately two blocks long has been breached along the Orleans Parish side of the 17th Street Canal (a canal that connects the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, running north/south along the border between Orleans and Jefferson parishes). Water is flowing from the lake into the city at an alarming rate. The flood waters are actually getting deeper. Seriously not good.

-Ryan

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

I heard some buildings had collpased in N.O. Is this true, and if so, which ones?

 

[mythusmage]

Yeah. And in some places, the water is *rising*! Not going down as one would think....

They're getting the run-off from higher ground. Expect New Orleans to get even wetter as the land around it drains.

Edit: When you live in a basin the problem is not the amount of rain you get, it's the amount of rain your neighbors get.

 

[mythusmage]

New Orleans as it looks now:

Looks like somebody could use the Mopping Feat.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Looks like somebody could use the Mopping Feat.

Until then a boat or canoe will be the way to get around.