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To: LindyBill who wrote (134779)8/28/2005 3:11:36 PM
From: Andrew N. Cothran  Read Replies (1) of 793585
 
Lindy, I am very familiar with the area, having spent by childhood and youth there and in Mobile. The media is not overhyping in this case. NO sits at the bottom of a bowl with the Mississippi River held back by levees to the south and west and northwest and Lake Ponchatrain to the North and East, held back by similar levees. But the levees were constructed to withstand Category 3, not 4 or 5. Ponchatrain will face the great surge and will overflow in one direction. The surge will force the Mississippi backwards and it will overflow in the other. Pumps, designed to force the water flowing into the bowl back out are electrically driven with diesel backups. The electricity will go first. Then the diesels will run out of fuel.

And all of the water pumped out will have no place to go and will then be dumped back into the city proper.

One aside: Many NO cemeteries feature above ground burial vaults because of the water table. In a previous hurricane, many of the vaults were actually flooded and then floated from their sites. Weeks later, many of the floating coffins were found miles away and returned to the cemeteries.

This storm is slated to be the biggest on record. The result destruction cannot even be imagined at this time.
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