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Subject BREAKING: Levee Overtopped in New Orleans Area - Evacs Underway!! Winds over 100mph!!

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water level dropping in braithwaite.
about 10 ft now.  Was over 14'
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Must have blown that second levee.
I think they blew the levee on the Mississippi to relieve flooding in the city.  This caused the flooding in Plaquemines which they had ordered mandatory evacs in except forgot to evac the nursing home there?
Then they blew the back earthen levee.

My question is who in turn will this flood out?
I need to consult google maps.
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One wrong move and you sit with a situation that could cascade into unforeseen consequences and cause a tragedy of epic proportions.  I hope not.
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Not sure what you mean.
But, does anyone know when your pumping stations keep the water out of NOLA and all around the outside of the bowl is also flooded already, where does the water go exactly?
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The only place it can go. Either in the river or in the lake.  No where else to put it.

Now regarding the planned breach of the levee.  Weather channel just explained it.  The town of Braithwaith was flooded from the Gulf side levee.  The town has a levee on the Mississippi river side and a smaller levee on the backside by the Gulf.  So, the town, as all communities in Plaquemines parish, basically sit in a bowl surrounded by levees.  They are planning on breeching the levee on the gulf side to let the water the flooded homes are sitting in drain back to the gulf.

They are also ordering a mandatory evacuation of Belle Chase which is on the west side of the river because the Mississippi is overtopping the levee there in Belle Chase.
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Original Message BREAKING - just came in National Weather Service NOLA

A back levee in Plaquemines is being overtopped from the St. Bernard line all the way to White Ditch, some 18 miles.
Evacuations underway.

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