"We're losing New Orleans." Who said this?

[senseandsensibility]

That's how I first learned about Katrina. I read this headline in GD on DU ten years ago. I guess I was completely out of the loop in
California, because I had no idea the storm was that bad.

The poster who wrote the title "We're losing New Orleans" was a DU regular and well-known here, but I'm having a brain freeze and can't remember the name. He or she may have been tombstoned since. I think the poster was from New Orleans.

Anyone else remember?

[yewberry]

1. I don't remember who that was.

But I know who our Gulf Coasters were.

SwampRat, BOSSHOGG, FrustratedLefty, Shell Beau, Maddy McCall, al CIA-da, Funkybutt, pitohui, merh, HeeBGBeez... could've been one of them?

[seabeyond]

4. i think it was swamprat. i was trying to remember names. kept picturing the florescent green

photoshops

[TexasProgresive]

2. Maybe they posted this article

http://www.citypages.com/news/the-worst-case-after-all-were-losing-new-orleans-6557184
The worst case after all: we're losing New Orleans

News outlets have carried almost nothing but Katrina dispatches and video footage since the hurricane came aground Monday morning, but in the past 24 hours they've been surreally slow to elucidate what's going on in New Orleans following the break of a critical levee on Lake Pontchartrain either late Monday or early Tuesday.

That levee break was said to be from 200-300 feet wide at Tuesday midday--as far as I know, no one has broadcast aerial pictures of it, though there have been repeated images of the less consequential Industrial Canal breach, some of them passed off as pictures of the Pontchartrain canal break--and elementary hydraulics dictate that the breach will only widen as long as it's open. The lake will continue emptying into the New Orleans basin below it at an increasing rate until either a) the levee break is closed, or b) the water level inside the basin is equal to the water level in the lake. In that event, the city is a total loss. Forget water damage per se; the toxicity of the former site of New Orleans would be staggering both in terms of chemical pollutants and organic ones--the most virulent and dangerous body of water in the world, sitting in a natural bowl below sea level that cannot drain itself.

So how are efforts to close the levee going? Late last night the cable networks reported that an initial effort to dam the breach with sandbags had failed, and that heavy military equipment was supposed to arrive on-site late in the night and begin work today. A regional Homeland Security official, Mark Smith, told the Shreveport Times on Tuesday, "That breach is not going to be fixed today, tomorrow, or the next day." (See this MSNBC dispatch.)

[Arugula Latte]

3. I think you're referring to this thread by benburch. I remember that clearly, too. He was right.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4481023#4481074

[senseandsensibility]

5. Thanks for the link; I think that's it.

What a terrifying thread. Does anyone know what happened to benburch? I recognized a lot of posters on that thread. I wonder what happened to a lot of them.

[seabeyond]

6. and i could be wrong, per post above, and you are right. i miss him. and so many in the thread. nt

[struggle4progress]

7. The Chitimacha. Louis XV of France. Ferdinand VII of Spain. Napoleon. Lincoln. Jeff Davis ...

[Tom Kitten]

8. I remember that post

You could be talking about this post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4481023

or this one...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5569330

[LWolf]

9. I remember the title,

and I remember sitting and reading the thread, and waiting, waiting...

but I don't remember who said it.