Wednesday morning's
Times-Picayune, which is for the moment only being published on-line, reports:
New Orleans became an unimaginable scene of water, fear and suffering Tuesday after a levee breach in the 17th Street Canal sent billions of gallons of Lake Pontchartrain coursing through the city.
As the day wore on, the only dry land was a narrow band from the French Quarter and parts of Uptown, the same small strip that was settled by Bienville amid the swamps.
On Tuesday night, it appeared the city was returning to swamp when a daylong effort to shore the levee near the Hammond Highway failed.
Mayor Ray Nagin said pumps were being overwhelmed and warned that a new deluge would bury the city in up to 15 feet of water.
With solid water from the lake to the French Quarter, the inundation and depopulation of an entire American city was at hand.
There's more here.
Wednesday morning's Times-Picayune, which is for the moment only being published on-line, reports: 
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