evacuee bus explodes / Levee overflows in NO

[Dark02Pony]

thread name says it all a bus exploded and waters are flowing over the levee in new orleans, its the same link for both storys i cant get a seperate link for each so just scroll down and you'll hit the levee story after the bus story.http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/23/rita/index.html

[PureVenom]

Yup, and last night there was some bozo on the news being interviewed about how he is not going to leave New Orleans and will just leave his fate in God's hands. Sure hope they don't waste any time, effort, money in rescuing these idiots.

They are expecting up to 5" of rain and since the sewers and such are plugged with debris, garbage, etc, drainage will be nearly non existant and they are expecting areas that stayed dry before to flood from the rain. Now the levees broke and others are only expected to be able to handle 6" of rain. Well, the surge is higher than they expected already, and they may get more than 5 inches, the fit may hit the shan real hard for them.

[PureVenom]

One thing I read about this is that the places that are breeching are where they used sand. Yes, Sand. Who builds with sand when water is the issue? I mean really?

Link

Quote: Federal Emergency Management spokesman Butch Kinerney said the breaks appeared to be mainly in places where sand had washed away, and that the stone holding the wall together was still intact.

The sand washed away? Really Forest? It did? Shocking.