…But this would have been minimal for two to three hours. So in real time, by 10 or 11 o'clock, the overtopping would have stopped and people would have turned on pumps. |
All of a sudden you have a twenty foot wall of water, like a cannon of water, if the wall held, and it was a spilling over the wall, then it was a gradual creeping of water into your house. |
There would have been minor flooding, two to three feet, in the Lower Ninth Ward. Most of the Chalmette area would have been dry. |