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We always were afraid the bowl that is New Orleans would fill quickly. Now with the water rising today, it appears to be filling slowly.

[Floodwaters were still rising as much as 3 inches, or 7.6 centimeters, an hour in parts of New Orleans late Tuesday. In other areas, they were beginning to subside.] I don't want to alarm anyone that New Orleans is filling up like a bowl, ... That isn't happening.

If you can picture sort of a soup bowl, the city is located in the middle. And once the levees — sort of the perimeter of the bowl — are breached or overtopped, then that water gets in there and just can't get out.... It's like filling a bucket up with water. This is probably the worst-case scenario that we've all been very, very worried about for quite some time.

I don't want to alarm everybody that, you know, New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That's just not happening.

I don't want to alarm anyone that New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That isn't happening.

This is the bowl effect that everyone has been talking about, ... Water is now going to fill the bowl on the east bank.

It's slowly inching downward, which is the modus operandi of Devil's Slide. It doesn't slide quickly, but slowly and surely, until all of the water is out of the slide plain.

The situation has gotten a lot better. The water is not rising right now in New Orleans.

A flood is defined as rising water, and it doesn't matter why the water is rising. If it rains faster than it can be pumped away, that's a flood. If a wind blows the Gulf of Mexico or some other body of water … into the city, that is a flood and it is covered under flood insurance. Rising waters, by definition, are excluded from a homeowner's policy.

A flood is defined as rising water, and it doesn't matter why the water is rising. If it rains faster than it can be pumped away, that's a flood. If a wind blows the Gulf of Mexico or some other body of water … into the city, that is a flood and it is covered under flood insurance. Rising waters, by definition, are excluded from a homeowner's policy.

Turn the water valve on and listen for any leaks. Because let's say, there was a broken pipe inside the wall that froze while you were away, you're gonna catch it quickly before the house has a chance to fill up with water.

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About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.

Frank Yerby (1916-)

When you have a storm which is a direct hit, putting water down in the quantities that hit storm Katrina dumped on New Orleans, there is nowhere for the water to go except in that basin and fill that basin up.

There's a myth people have about New Orleans that make them fear to come, just like what happened in New York after 9/11. Everyone thinks the city is under water - when it's not - just like the media kept portraying the scene of NYC as that piece of skeleton steel rising out of the pit of the World Trade Center, when the simple message is that New Orleans, just like New York City, is ready, willing, and anxious for tourists to come back.

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