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Gustav Floods Upper 9th Ward

By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 1, 2008 12:45 PM CDT

(Newser) – Six inches of water from Hurricane Gustav is flooding the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans, but the Army Corps of Engineers says the situation is not a major danger, the Times-Picayune reports. The Lower Ninth Ward’s levees, which were reinforced after Hurricane Katrina,...   Read full story »

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