"We have whitecaps on Canal Street."

[digitaldiscipline]

Chalmette, the Ninth Ward, Downtown... six to fifteen feet of water over all of it.

I hope people are OK, and that they can get out as soon as possible.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/30/katrina.neworleans/index.html

[VP of Tulane Hospital] Caraway said she didn't know whether any pumps had been turned on to pump the water, but said, "they're not going to be able to compete with Lake Pontchartrain."

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[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Busted lake levee, I heard. You can pump all day, but until that's fixed, it won't help much.

[the-yellow-king.livejournal.com]

I am finding Wikipedia to actually be a better source of information than the news channels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina