BREAKING NEWS: Levee breaks in New Orleans

[Galvan]

CNN Is reporting at this hour that the lower 9th ward levee has broken and is flooding the area with 5 to 10 inches of water per minute.

[SFaddiction84]

Isnt that just sad, there worried that as the Hurricane Gets near, all the leavees they repaired will breech and flood the area... just horrible

[[jonrev]]

New Orleans is flooding again! That sucks, they just spent 3 weeks to get all that water out and here it comes again!

[JGSixFlags]

Isnt that just sad, there worried that as the Hurricane Gets near, all the leavees they repaired will breech and flood the area... just horrible

No, thats not sad. Thats pethetic! They should of been fixed propoley! What if reta went for a direct hit? What would of happened to the big easy then? If you ask me, its a sign that says "GET THE HECK OUT OF NEW ORLEANS FOR GOOD!" I dotn think we should wast tax money on re-building NO, build it some where else where it will be cheaper.

[twixmix0303]

It takes more than 3 weeks to completely finish a levee properly.

[FreghtFestFreak3]

New Orleans is slowly sinking so eventually the US wil have to move out of there. Until then, however, they should fix the levee's A.S.A.P. and as best they can.

[Chitown]

They should really consider filling that whole area in until it is at least at sea level.

I see some of those expensive looking homes on the news butting right up to these levees and I ask myself WHY? Why would you build right next to an almost guaranteed flood?

[Shockwavegirl]

The city started off that way, but since NO is built on "artificial" landfill, the sea will always try to reclaim it. Same problem for Holland. There isn't a whole lot they can do to keep it from sinking, except update the levees after this hurricane season is over, or leave it alone and let mother nature reclaim what's hers. But since that's not going to happen, more money needs to be spent on modernizing the levee system, much like Holland has had to do.