Reported on WWL. The levee break is not fixed, Mayor Nagin reported that for the next 12-15 hours the city will flood deeper and deeper, even uptown and areas that are dry now will go under. He mentioned St. Charles Avenue could be under 9 feet of water.
If you are in contact in any way with someone who stayed uptown or in an area where they have been OK you might want to pass along that the Crescent City Connection bridge is open, the westbank is dry, and if they can get across the bridge they can get to highway 90 and other routes farther north and west.
This should be the final straw for anyone who rode it out and is OK so far. NOLA will be unlivable for possibly 1-6 months. This is worse than south Dade after Andrew (and I saw that up close). It seems, I hope I'm wrong, that there will be no substantial relief even for long enough to be life threatening.
From what I know of the topography, the area by the zoo should be relatively high, the levee uptown should be the highest ground around if you need to flee.
NOLA Mayor warns flooding increasing throughout city
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