yeh, some of same areas under water and some new areas in and around NO, and, correction to the correction:
Corps hopes to plug levee breaches today (Sat 9/24)
Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Dan Hitchings said crews were expected to drop sandbags into place by helicopter Saturday to slow the flooding of the Lower Ninth Ward caused by two breaches along the banks of the Industrial Canal.
Hitchings said there were two breaches on the east bank of the canal, one about 100 feet long another about 40 feet long, that dumped and estimated four to five feet of water into the area.
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Corps hopes to plug levee breaches today (Sat 9/24)
Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Dan Hitchings said crews were expected to drop sandbags into place by helicopter Saturday to slow the flooding of the Lower Ninth Ward caused by two breaches along the banks of the Industrial Canal.
Hitchings said there were two breaches on the east bank of the canal, one about 100 feet long another about 40 feet long, that dumped and estimated four to five feet of water into the area.
- jimlouis 9-24-2005 11:55 pm