• WWL is now reporting: A LEVEE BREACH OCCURRED ALONG THE INDUSTRIAL CANAL AT TENNESSE STREET. 3 TO 8 FEET OF WATER IS EXPECTED DUE TO THE BREACH…LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ARABI AND 9TH WARD OF NEW ORLEANS.
• Live WWL newscast reporting “substantial portion of roof” now off. Estimated number of peoplet here: 8,000 to 9,000.
• New Orleans facing environmental disaster.
• Correction: “Half of roof is pretty much gone.”
• Superdome Seating Chart: people now being moved to concession stands.
• Brainwidth reporting from Lafayette.

• Confirmation of Superdome roof: “I can see daylight straight up from inside the Superdome.” The Superdome is 273 feet high and encased in 20,000 tons of structural steel. Hopefully, there will still be bleacher space high up for the people inside as the rain comes in.
• “New Orleans may never be the same.” Oh really?
• 4,000 National Guardsman prepared to mobilize for New Orleans post-Katrina.
• Stocks down.
• Metroblogging New Orleans offers some personal reports.
• Latest satellite images.

The erstwhile Michelle Richmond will be chatting with Lynn Freed on Word by Word. Show date is September 7. She’ll also be at the Sonoma County Book Festival on September 10. It seems that Ms. Richmond is in the North Bay more than she is the City these days.

It’s stuck in my head! Make it stop!