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[theweaselking]

Hurricane Rita's waves break New Orleans levees again, from 350km out - water rising about 3 inches a minute in Ninth Ward.

On the completely stalled evacuation that has many people seemingly with their only option being to rid out the hurricane in TENTS alongside the highway:

"I think Governor Perry and his team has done a great job," Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas

"The point needs to be made and driven home hard that a hell of a lot of the people who are going to end up riding this storm out in their homes are NOT DOING SO BY CHOICE. They are doing so because state government and TXDoT fucked up," - chaobell

Guess which one of these two will actually be anywhere near the hurricane.

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[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

I heard an interview with someone from the Army Corps of Engineers on the radio this morning—the levee's not broken, but the water level has already risen too high for it. (It is one that was patched, btw.)

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

That same Fox link has changed twice since I first saw it. Now it says, with near-identical wording in two different paragraphs, that the levee is only overflowing AND that it is both overflowing and broken.

[cmseward.livejournal.com]

What, you were expecting a consistent, truthful story from Fox?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No, but they do tend to get most of the events reasonably correct.

The important part is not *how* the water is getting past the levee, it's *that* the water is getting past the levee.