More levees fail in New Orleans; water pours in
Our worst fears came true,� National Guardsman says
Hurricane Rita�s wind-driven storm surge topped one of New Orleans� battered levees Friday and poked holes in another, sending water gushing into already-devastated neighborhoods just days after they had been pumped dry.
An initial surge of water cascaded over a patched levee protecting the impoverished Ninth Ward, flooding the abandoned neighborhood with at least 6 feet of water.
�Our worst fears came true,� said Maj. Barry Guidry, a National Guardsman on duty at the broken levee.
Hurricane Rita�s wind-driven storm surge topped one of New Orleans� battered levees Friday and poked holes in another, sending water gushing into already-devastated neighborhoods just days after they had been pumped dry.
An initial surge of water cascaded over a patched levee protecting the impoverished Ninth Ward, flooding the abandoned neighborhood with at least 6 feet of water.
�Our worst fears came true,� said Maj. Barry Guidry, a National Guardsman on duty at the broken levee.
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