NOLA blog:"New Orleans is sinking - I don't want to swim"(sea rising fast)

[expatriot]

We are not used to media's doomsday hype coming true... N.O. might make it, it might not. Pray, hope, wish like hell.... what ever you do... do it.


New Orleans is sinking . . . I don't want to swim

9:34 - Reports of widespread flooding now, although not at the doomsday scenario levels. But we've got several hours to go before we've seen the worst past. Scanner traffic is busy with calls of rising water, including 18 inches and rising against the levee in the French Quarter. Dispatchers questioning officers on the scene, trying to determine if there is a break in the river levee, or if water is pouring over the top. Independently, NOLA has received a flooding alert for the French Market area.

Fairly heavy street flooding in front and behind the Times-Picayune . . . water appears about knee deep, whipped by the steady wind into whitecaps and breakers. Water is hubcap deep on the furthest vehicles in the employee parking lot, and rising quickly