Msg from a friend of mine in NOLA:

[Roland99]

From earlier today:

Local News video of where water breached the 9th ward area east of the Industrial canal again.

They just dried out and it is now flooding back up to the roof lines.

The Lake level has been rising. The Industrial canal is same level as the lake.

Just another foot and New Orleans will go under water again.

They are evacuating where I am here, lake is starting to come inland up here on the North Shore.

And just recently

I am in a fortress 7 stories above street level.

Remember that building seen in the Helicopter evacuations you saw on TV? That building.

Automatic fill is not working on generator so have to manually go outside every 1 1/2 to fill the tank.

Storm surge is already at least 6 feet here, New Orleans is re-flooding.

I have some pics and Video and will try uploading in a bit.

Not sure if he's going to be stranded there or not but this isn't looking good for the recovery efforts in New Orleans.

And, btw, WTF is KKKarl fundraising up in North fvcking Dakota? I thought he was in charge of NOLA reconstruction?

[KyndCulture]

1. I plan to be there tomorrow to protest Karl, I'll ask the fucker. nt

[Rainscents]

2. You try to stay safe.

KKKarl, you know, he is all hot air... He probably blowing someone at ND.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Oh Heavens. This could just happening over and over until we

can build some monstrous levees.

[Gunit_Sangh]

4. re: KKkarl

Nothing, but NOTHING is more important than a political fund raiser in the face of a disaster of biblical proportions that happen once a millinimum, or every three weeks -- whichever comes first.

Besides -- Haliburton's on it!

</snark>

[indepat]

5. KKKarl's fund raising in North Dakota takes precedence over corollary

and secondary assignments.

[woodsprite]

6. Where's Cheney? Condi? ...

With Bush in CO, alot of our NG support in TX and LA, Rove in ND and them doing a military op in DC, I'm not feeling none too healthy sitting here in DE.

Heads up, stay safe and don't let your guard down.

[Roland99]

7. An update from earlier...

I went to sleep actually about 12:30 after blocked down alarms from all the sites going down.

Was tired. We stayed on commericial power here although there were transformers popping all around us.

It looks worse on the North Shore now according to radar loops.

My Boss is arriving from Seattle about 6 pm or so tonight.

Everything from I-12 south is down, nearly half the system between the two storms. There is a huge swath and most if not all of Lafayette is off-line.

This is exhausting and there is a ton of work to do ahead.