Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying
neighborhoods in a devastating repeat of New Orleans' flooding nightmare.
It seems the heavy rain bands of hurricane Rita send torrential rains and surf against already weakened and hurriedly patched walls. Much of New
Orleans is now either flooded or flooding.
We have three significant breaches in the levee and the water is rising rapidly," he said. "At daybreak I found substantial breaks and they've
grown larger."
Dozens of blocks in the Ninth Ward (search) were under water as a waterfall at least 30 feet wide poured over and through a dike that had been used to
patch breaks in the Industrial Canal (search) levee.
