CNN: water in N.O. rising 5 inches per minute
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:40 AM
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CNN: water in N.O. rising 5 inches per minute
Two levee breaches. Reprter says city may be back to square one by noon.
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:41 AM
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:42 AM
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2. Good news is, it should only take 2 days
to pump out the water. I heard that at the airport on my way back from NOLA.
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:46 AM
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They've got most of the pumps back on-line now, right? So theoretically it should be much faster (assuming Rita doesn't knock out the pumps again)
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:48 AM
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11. No, most of the pumps are working way below capacity
That's what I heard from that LSU Prof who's a hurricane expert. Some pumps still not working at all.
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Fri Sep-23-05 11:06 AM
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16. why did the some of the pumps quit working when N-O flooded a few
weeks ago? Were they just overwhelmed by the volume of water? Or their power source failed? Does anybody know?
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:42 AM
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3. that doesn't sound like overtopping...I hope it's wrong
Early reporting is frequently wrong, I can hope.
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:42 AM
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That sucks, though it's not unexpected.
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:44 AM
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:46 AM
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7. 5-10 inches per minute
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:48 AM
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10. "5-10 inches per minute"
hmmmmm that's 600 inches per hour or fifty feet per hour.... something doesn't compute...
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Fri Sep-23-05 10:59 AM
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15. That was what they were reporting. I know, I was going "10 inches
tgnyc
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:48 AM
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8. CNN reporter: it's not the rain, it's the wind
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:48 AM
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9. After the breaches are repaired
The pumps can got 4in in hour 1, and 1 in/hr after that. The pumping system for NOLA is truley amazing.
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:49 AM
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It's that German team that came in and got that shit moving.
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Fri Sep-23-05 09:56 AM
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13. Exactly! From what I understand only 20% of NO's original pumps
were up and running, it was the 'mobile' pumps brought in that drained the city prior to this latest flooding.
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Fri Sep-23-05 10:01 AM
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14. ...and after all that pro-Bush MSM reporting on how the levees were fixed.
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