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Wednesday, August 31
When The Levee Breaks
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the levees separating New Orleans from Lake Ponchatrain have failed in several places. The Crescent City is now filling up with water like a clogged drain. Once they repair the breaches - in part by dropping 3,000 pound sandbags from helicopters - the water can be siphoned off by a series of flood pumps... or could be, if they didn't run on city power. Which is out, of course. Apparently the engineers down there never considered that the electric grid might fail in a flood.
Several thousand refugees spent a couple of days in the Superdome, which now looks more like Texas Stadium (i.e. there's a hole in the roof). With the level of comfort rapidly deteriorating, the authorities are transferring them to a much nicer facility - the Houston Astrodome! Nice work, guys.
It might tell you something about Louisiana that I had plenty of choices for a title for this post. "Louisiana Rain" by Tom Petty, "New Orleans Is Sinking" by the Tragically Hip, "Lousiana 1927" by Randy Newman... when most of the songs about a state are about rain or floods, that should tell you something.
