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| The levee has also broken through on the Metarie side.
| Martin Wine Cellar has a huge store on Veterans Blvd
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It's incomprehensible. And New Orleans is just one of the affected cities.

I was at Martin's on Veteran's a few months ago, little group of locals did
a wine tasting. I noticed how the particular fresh hamburger served at
Martin's delicatessen was creative. Visited a couple of other good wine
shops too. To say nothing of people and restaurants. I just received a
newsletter by post from Marisol, an eclectic restaurant on Esplanade near
the river.

The New Orleans dam and pump failures (I'm using the general word "dam;"
it's a sub-sea-level city like some in the Netherlands) happened in the last
24 hours or so, well after the hurricane had passed. Current news reports
say that the city of 500,000 has no drinking water or electricity and is on
the verge of martial law.

-- Max