I doubt that there are very many portable pumps with 6' piping. That's what
they have at the levees into Pontchatrain, lots of them.

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)


"George Patterson" wrote in message
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sfb wrote:
I saw one blurb saying it would be a month before they will let residents
back into town.

Bet they'll have even more trouble getting people to leave the next time
they want to evacuate someplace. AP is saying less than a week.

The pumps can handle about 1" of rain
an hour. So they have to close the holes in the dikes, get power back to
the pumps, start pumping, and then start cleaning.

While they're closing holes in the dikes, they'll be bringing in
additional pumps, some of which will have their own power supplies. Any
major port will have many of these.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.