If it's not the hurricane, it's the levee, the rain, the gas shortage, the crowded highways on the evacuation route, the stress, or who knows what. As though there wasn't enough tragedy already:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/23/rita/index.html

At least traffic is now moving in one direction on the evac route:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/23/news.update.fri/


>yes, very sad indeed.
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>And I guess that all levees that had 2+ weeks with water "on the wrong side of them" must suffer some effect from that too.
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>I guess all we can do is to hope for the best.
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>>CNN are reporting that water is already washing over the levees in New Orleans. Looks very sad for the city.
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>>Nick Mason