A city devastated by flood water.

One of the floodwalls alongside a canal bursts, and torrents of water pour out with tremendous force into the surrounding neighbourhood.

A hole in another floodwall, you can see that the houses on the right haven’t been flooded, although that may have changed since the photo was taken.

Lake Pontchartrain sits almost 5 feet above sea level and it continued to flood the city until it levelled out, the Army Corps of Engineers are attempting to plug the breaches in the floodwalls so they can begin to repair the levees and start pumping some of the water out of the city.

It may take up to a month before all the water has been pumped out, and if what the Mayor of New Orleans is true, then thousands may have perished in what is becoming possibly the worst natural disaster the United States has ever seen.

*sigh*