I start watching at 10:20 NY time
Anchorwoman calls the Rigolets, Rigolees.
We see water at the top of the Industrial Canal. It will probably
overtop any minute.
There are some ships/barges loose in the Industrial Canal. Great. A
fire at Broad and Esplanade.
We hear, "Tornados. I need to go on."
The New Orleans side of the Industrial Canal is at risk.
We're losing the audio and the entire signal often.
Watching water coming over the Industrial Canal, the Orleans side. Very sad.
I wonder if a second wall behind these first walls would help. The
second wall wouldn't have to be as well entrenched. It could just be
enough to hold whatever spilled over or if the first wall broke, a
smaller force of water, not the full force of the water in the canal.
Would that help?
Shut up Travers.
Anchors talking to Sen Vitter: "Obviously no one is jumping the gun."
"Obviously" is one overused word and inaccurately used in most cases
so far.
Bush: "The co-ordination of this storm is a lot better"... If you say
so. All that says is you are covering your ass. What are you doing to
help? He is still an idiot.
Jindal: 3 more hours of peak water on the Industrial Canal.
Lilly pads!
Jindal is giving excellent info.
Norman Robinson, DSU: ..."in Southern ship yard"... should be In THE
Southern shipyard...
Some city councilman are going to make sure that vessels won't be in
the Industrial Canal during hurricanes. Good idea.
Cynthia Willard-Lewis is wandering in her answer.
I am feeling better that the city will survive with few problems. The
water is not overtopping as severely near the Judge Sieber Bridge,
where DSU's Travers Mackel is. Other reports indicate that things
seem to be getting better. That could change though with one break.
Ron Smiley has calmed down. Good. We'll get better info if he isn't breathless.
3:16 NY time: DSU: The Army Corps of Engineers isn't overly concerned
about the overtopping of the Industrial Canal. The city pumps will
take care of it.
1/4 of US oil production is from the Gulf. It's all shut down. 40% of
US refining capacity is shut down. The Strategic Oil Reserve is at
record levels.
The Red Cross director is saying all the right things.
Billy Nungesser via a DSU reporter: "We didn't dodge a bullet. We
dodged a cannonball"!
Heath Allen's audio report of the North Shore is horrendous. Cell
phone garbage. 'There was a lotta, lotta, lotta, lotta, lotta, lotta,
rain out there.'
Smiley laughs as they say that 'people who evacuated to get out of
the way of this, are now getting slammed.' Real compassionate. He's
laughing because it came out so differently than they had expected
and that is human but it just looks bad.
They're relieved that the expected worst in New Orleans hasn't
happened but what about the rest of LA?
DSU (guest) reporter Sandra Shaw..."as you can see some of the EMS
workers had to help him out." No, we aren't seeing that.
4:30 NY time: Cat 1 now.
Ron: ..."we have a lot of friends back in the Mississippi"... He
meant to say the 'Mississippi area' but he had too much to say so he
skipped it. Idiot. Slow down. Engage brain before operating mouth.
...back in the Florida... signs that says...
Richard Angelico is filing some good reports.
Ron: "When you're looking at this eye kind of thing"...
DSU: Rachel Wulff: "Occasionally we'll see a huge whiff of wind." A whiff?
Keli Fulton: "We saw several trees down literally".... Hunh? Literally?
Good to have phone reports from all the reporters.
5:10 pm CNN: WGNO is reporting a levee break? Caernarvon.
5:30 NY time: "Plaquemines parish residents must leave now." The
levee will be overtopped.
These newscasters/weatherpeople have to stop using the word
"obviously". Please.
They interview john Green. He thinks people will stay the next time.
He's probably right. People are lazy. If they don't have to move to
get out of danger, they won't. Of course, they may die if the storm
goes one direction rather than the other.
CNN's John King: "St Bernard's parish." No, it's St Bernard parish.
Others have made that kind of mistake too.
I watch the News Hour. They mentioned that the traffic was one-way
but all the video they showed was of highways with traffic going in
BOTH directions. They also showed a graphic that had nothing to do
with the issue of overtopped levees and the scouring that occurs,
which was what they were talking about.
I am under the impression that the Corps is only rebuilding to a Cat
3, not a 100-year storm. The Corp spokesman said they are rebuilding
for a 100-year storm. But since Cat 3 and 100-year storm are
different ways of looking at it, who knows what they really mean.
Ron: Both the West and East banks are in danger of overtopping by
Caernarvon ... "if I'm not getting this correct." No, you mean 'if
you're not getting this incorrectly' or 'if you're getting this
correctly.'
Jindal on again.
7:12 NY time: The T-P announced at 4:43 pm that the Caenarvon
Mississippi River diversion will be opened. DSU is still wondering if
that will happen.
7:54 NY time: I am not sure if the diversion was opened or not. DSU
aired a report that didn't indicate that. It looked like they were
patching the levee rather than opening it up.
8:08 NY time. DSU: Levee no longer at risk. Good but I am not sure
which one. "The Gulf is rising", in a report shot earlier.
I can't tell what Ron is talking about. The fence? Ascent? Air moving
over water. Enunciate.
They show a map that has the track inland. They list Tues, Wed and
have Sat 7:00 Pm in bigger letters for some reason. Why are they
mentioning Saturday? Are they talking about last Saturday? Next
Saturday? It doesn't make sense to me.
Fetch? Dan Milham mentions it too.
Aaron Broussard on now. One guy demands that Entergy had better be
working on restoring power as soon as the winds go under 25 mph.
Alright.
A pretty Senator Julie Quinn praises the difference between Gustav and Katrina.
We've told you your homes are protected, etc. Stay away until
tomorrow night when they make the decision.
"The winds were declining, not inclining"...
DSU plays first promo since the storm started.
Nagin press conference: Only 2 arrests in the past 24 hrs in NO! Fire
at Esplanade and Broad was due to someone who stayed behind, using a
generator.
DSU headline: "City operating on Skeleton Crew, Working on back-up
power." That could be a headline during Mardi Gras!
The Saints will be back by Monday. Great. (That's a sarcastic great, folks.)
Nagin: 'We need to push the Engineers, the Corps of Engineers, to get
the levees back in shape and the wetlands in the best shape
possible.' Good.
Nagin wouldn't do anything different except maybe calling this the
mother-in-law of all storms!
Nagin thanks Americans.
It looks like this event is over. Yea!
Well, almost over. There are a few levees that may still be in danger
including the one in Plaquemines. One also in St Bernard.
Anderson Cooper: "La fayette."
Fox: Shepherd SmIth: "The governor of New Orleans"...
I see flooding but don't know where it is. And places like Houma and
SW LA really got hit but we'll find out about that tomorrow.
Michael Brown on MSNBC!
DSU is showing what they are calling a live image but it shows late
afternoon and it is now 9:30 NO time. Other stations, CNN included,
are doing that too.
Task Force Gator... (LA National Guard)
11:46 NY time: DSU: Mandeville mayor: Had 8" of rain in the past 2
hours. All the power is out there, except for where there are
generators.
Gina Swanson files a good report from Lafitte. The cameraman/woman
didn't have the light on for awhile but she carried on regardless.
Good for her. More portable levees! They get filled with water.
Brilliant!
Terrebone parish won't be open to people until Friday! That's how bad
things are there.
12:08 NY time. I go to bed.
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