It appears that contrary to what I heard earlier, New Orleans did not escape after all. One or more levees have failed, and the city is flooded.
Quoting Mayor Ray Nagin, Monday night:
"We probably have 80 percent of our city underwater, with some sections of our city, the water is as deep as 20 feet."
No death toll is available yet, but rescue operations aren't going very well, as the bulk of the National Guard and their equipment, that normally would be deployed to help deal with things like this, is off in Iraq.
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