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...sign of large-scale flooding - yet. However, just before noon, Maj. Tim Kurgan, spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers' New Orleans district, said there was "overtopping" (that is, spilling over) on the western side of the Industrial Canal which has three main tributaries: Lake Pontchartrain, the Intercoastal Water Way, and the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, commonly known as "Mr. Go." Gustav's heavy winds have apparently pushed water into the Industrial Canal from those three areas. Kurgan said the last reading on the Industrial Canal's gauge was 11.83 feet; the lowest wall along the canal is about...
...most severely hit by Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters. It sits on the western side of the Industrial Canal, just south of Lake Pontchartrain. Also at risk, just to the south, is the Bywater neighborhood, which sits where the Mississippi River meets the Industrial Canal. "With the amount of water coming over right now, if you combine that with the heavy rainfall, you'll have some significant inundation," Kurgan said...
...however, the authorities don't seem to be concerned about Gustav itself, given how much it has diminished. But the authorities are still concerned about the surge of water Gustav will likely send into low-lying costal areas, where many residents apparently refused to leave. Water is already being reported surging in Louisiana's boot. The surge is also expected to send several feet of water into the west bank of New Orleans' suburbs...
...Pollard, public information officer for neighboring Harrison County, says he remembers a chilling moment during Katrina when officials at Hancock County's Emergency Operation Center - believed to be on safe ground - called him on the phone and told him the building was rapidly filling with water. "They all wrote numbers on their arms with indelible ink, then listed their names and numbers on a sheet of paper, put it in a Ziploc bag, and tacked it to the roof," Pollard says. "We were taping final messages from them to their families...
...Residents along the Louisiana Gulf Coast began to leave Friday. Preparations began a couple of days before that with residents boarding windows, buying generators, batteries and water, and filling up their cars with gas. Traffic mixed with evacuees and fans headed to the first Louisiana State University football game of the season started to back up on I-10 West toward Baton Rouge Friday evening. A drive that normally takes a little more than an hour took about two and a half hours...