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[Skidmore]

"There is so much debry between where they are and the levee. All the bridge under passes are full of cars and parts of buildings. They cant navigate the water. About all that will go up in there are fishing boats. they were up north filling the bags by machine. If you look at a map of New Orleans The Mississippi River flows to the south of the town. The levee breach is to the north on the canal and the lake. XXX is on a barge headed out into the gulf of Mexico to punch a hole in the levee on the gulf side to drain the water out into the gulf of Mexico and the marshlands. When that levee system was built there was marshlands there to drain everything into naturally. Local officials allowed building in the area against the advice of the COE and now that has no place to go. They talk about the codos that got flattened down by the gulf. They were in places where buildings should never be put. People get greedy to make money and everyone wants to be near the water so they build there. There is an old saying in Florida "live by the water and you will end up in the water" When you put concrete and steel over areas that should be left for drainage the water has to run someplace else and when it cant it makes a lake where it is. This is a much larger area that even New York was during 9/11. It covers really 4 states. "