First good news in far too long

[infrogmation]

TV reporter standing in Canal Street, no longer in water.

Confirmation water is finally going down.

Comments

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Somehow I suspected the first signs of normalcy would be a shrimp restaurant in the French Quarter staying open (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050831/lf_afp/usweatherfood_050831004814). I'm expecting reports of live music performances resuming any night now.

First good news in far too long

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

I don't know that eating and drinking ever came to a stop as long as somewhere still had a stock of food and drink.

If anything I'm a bit surprised that none of the television scenes of refugees atop the I-10 ramps I've seen has included a brass band.

Re: First good news in far too long

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

The band played while the Titanic sank, didn't it? There had to be one guy with a trombone or something.

Music

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Yes; one of the ship's bands kept playing to the end.

Nothing else to do; help minimize panic.

Some reported the last tune played was the hymn "Nearer My God To Thee", though it might have been "Autumn Leaves", a tune from the time in the band's sheet music with the same chords which might have been mistaken for it.

I'm glad I played trombone publically three times within the day and a half before leaving town. Sound tracks are usefull.

[(Anonymous)]

How much of New Orleans is going to need complete rebuilding, and how much is "just" going to need repair? I keep seeing the blurbs saying that parts of the city are as much as xxx feet below sea level, and that parts are under as much as 20 feet of water -- but they don't say what "part" means. How much is above sea level? How much might have had no flooding, or only a little? (In terms of actual area, and/or percentage of population.)

[iayork.livejournal.com]

(And why does that computer insist on logging me out of LJ all the time?)

[ernunnos.livejournal.com]

Where's it going?

Water

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

As I can't find evidence that the down pumps are up again and the breech in the 17th street canal which links to Lake Pontchartrain hasn't been plugged, my guess now is that the water simply flooded up to its natural level and is now receeding as the level of Lake Pontchartrain goes back down as the water driven into the lake by the Hurricane goes out into the Gulf.

Re: Water

[glitter-ninja.livejournal.com]

As of about 3:00 PM central, the breach has not been plugged and none of the pumps were working. The Department of Homeland Security is now in charge of the situation (uh oh?) and it's being reported that they're going to drop 15,000 pound bags of sand/gravel on the breach on 17th street canal. Then pump the water out, which will take weeks.