Other burning things of note

Drainage pumps on the Orleans Avenue canal.

Level gauges show the water levels in the canal were between 2 and 3 feet, well below the supposed canal Safe Water Elevation of 8 feet. Thus the only reason to cut back on the water going in the canal is because the Corps couldn't pump it out fast enough. This puts the lie to the Corps' Accardo when he said his pumps could stay ahead of the S and WB. They obviously couldn't.

But things would get even worse later that morning. At 9:40 AM, the log reported:

"Donald Constantine w/C.O.E. reported a Fire w/C.O.E pump"

You read that right.

At least one of the Corps' pumps Caught On Fire During Hurricane Isaac.