On Monday when the hurricane was going through, I was doing a little research. I had found this page:
http://www.publichealth.hurricane.ls...y%20Areatf.htm
It has a lot of good information on how the levees work. I remember thinking of how far below sea level a lot of New Orleans is. And how if one of those levees broke, they would be hurting.
On Monday night, I thought they were going to be o.k., then sometime overnight is when the levees broke. That water is going to be there for weeks. It has no place to go.
Another thing that no one is talking about is all the heavy rain they are getting in the Ohio river valley. The Ohio river dumps into the Mississippi and we all know where all of that water goes. So in a couple of weeks when all that rain water gets down to New Orleans, the river level will rise a little bit. Probably won't be a huge deal, but weird none the less.
later,
Curt