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Isidore Floods New Orleans
Aired September 26, 2002 - 14:14 ET
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: The skies over the Crescent City are beginning to clear, but much of the ground is covered by floodwater -- a soggy greeting from Tropical Storm Isidore. Power is slowly being returned to thousands of homes left in the dark when that storm roared ashore.
CNN's Jeff Flock is drying out with the rest of the folks in the Big Easy.
Hi -- Jeff.
JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Indeed, Kyra. We are drying out, if smart enough not to stand too close to the breakers coming in here off of Lake Pontchartrain. This road, as perhaps you remember from last hour, is looking a little better to me. I think the water is not getting pushed as hard as it was before and, you know. starting to drain out the other end, which is the way out to the gulf there. So a lot of water got pushed, but it is beginning to move on out. So that is a good thing.
Elsewhere in New Orleans, floodwaters remain, although those at last report were receding as well. The city's pump system, which is decades old, really dates back a long way, and apparently pumps out 1 inch the first hour, and then 1/2 inch every hour thereafter, and it is now getting ahead of all of those floodwaters that inundated the city for the past two days.
And as I said, back out here, the main problem is this wind- driven water, which continues to be something of a problem in places like this, where the road is somewhat inundated. We have seen a few cars come actually past here despite the fact that I'm knee-deep in here in the roadway right now; despite that, some cars have even made it through.
So all in all, I think we are returning to some degree of normal here in New Orleans and on the bayou.
PHILLIPS: Jeff, you know you are in the bayou. You better watch out for those little critters that roam the waters there.
FLOCK: I had a worm this morning. The worms were out this morning. The state patrol came and said watch out for snakes. And you know there could be errant alligator as well. So we didn't see any, though.
PHILLIPS: All right, we will supply you with the tequila once you're off the air. Jeff Flock, thank you.
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Aired September 26, 2002 - 14:14 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: The skies over the Crescent City are beginning to clear, but much of the ground is covered by floodwater -- a soggy greeting from Tropical Storm Isidore. Power is slowly being returned to thousands of homes left in the dark when that storm roared ashore.
CNN's Jeff Flock is drying out with the rest of the folks in the Big Easy.
Hi -- Jeff.
JEFF FLOCK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Indeed, Kyra. We are drying out, if smart enough not to stand too close to the breakers coming in here off of Lake Pontchartrain. This road, as perhaps you remember from last hour, is looking a little better to me. I think the water is not getting pushed as hard as it was before and, you know. starting to drain out the other end, which is the way out to the gulf there. So a lot of water got pushed, but it is beginning to move on out. So that is a good thing.
Elsewhere in New Orleans, floodwaters remain, although those at last report were receding as well. The city's pump system, which is decades old, really dates back a long way, and apparently pumps out 1 inch the first hour, and then 1/2 inch every hour thereafter, and it is now getting ahead of all of those floodwaters that inundated the city for the past two days.
And as I said, back out here, the main problem is this wind- driven water, which continues to be something of a problem in places like this, where the road is somewhat inundated. We have seen a few cars come actually past here despite the fact that I'm knee-deep in here in the roadway right now; despite that, some cars have even made it through.
So all in all, I think we are returning to some degree of normal here in New Orleans and on the bayou.
PHILLIPS: Jeff, you know you are in the bayou. You better watch out for those little critters that roam the waters there.
FLOCK: I had a worm this morning. The worms were out this morning. The state patrol came and said watch out for snakes. And you know there could be errant alligator as well. So we didn't see any, though.
PHILLIPS: All right, we will supply you with the tequila once you're off the air. Jeff Flock, thank you.
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