NEW ORLEANS — As volunteers hauled soggy insulation out of a flooded store that belongs to a prominent New Orleans social club Wednesday, the group’s president said city pumping problems implicated in weekend flooding were unacceptable. We are too close to help, supposed to be, for us to flood this way,” Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club president Naaman Stewart said. The club’s headquarters and store, only blocks from one of the city’s 24 pumping stations, got about 2 to 3 feet (0.61 metres to 1 metre) of water Saturday. New Orleans’ municipal pumping system is supposed to move water out of the low-lying city. Cedric Grant, one of Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s top deputies and the head of the Sewerage & Water Board, told the council at the start of Tuesday’s meeting that he would retire at the end of hurricane season, which lasts through November.

Source: National Post August 09, 2017 19:18 UTC