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Originally Posted by Kimmykim
Having lived in New Orleans and gone to school there, it completely breaks my heart to see this happening. Hopefully the administrators are right and they can lessen the levee breach within a couple of hours, otherwise it's possible that the water won't stop rising until it's reached lake level, leaving most of the city underwater.
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Having been a former resident of the coastal Florida panhandle and a visitor to the Mississippi Gulf Coast as well as "Nawlins" more than a dozen times, I was practically in tears watching the news accounts yesterday of what has to be termed a complete catastrophe.
New Orleans is basically shaped like a saucer dish with water from the Mississippi River and Lake Ponchatrain surrounding it so rising water will be a huge issue.
Interestingly enough, the French Quarter apparently weathered the storm fairly well.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/2...ch.quarter.ap/
BTW, where did you go to school there, UNO, Loyola, Tulane, one of those schools?