[snarks_when_bored]

This was written in haste, so it's not impossible that I dropped a digit or two. If so, I'd appreciate having that fact pointed out.

Again, my condolences to our devastated fellow Americans in New Orleans and surrounding parishes, and along the Gulf coasts of Mississippi and Alabama.

[snarks_when_bored]

For the record, I do understand that because the storm surge is for the most part not laterally constrained, it's able to flow around certain obstacles in a way that an aircraft carrier could not.

[SampleMan]

In your haste you took a cubic of foot of water to equal 1 lb. It equals something around 65. The carrier can't weigh more than the water it dispaces, roughly 35 ft X 100 ft X 1000 ft.

[SampleMan]

Your numbers are off. You converted 1 cubic foot to 1 lb. It is around 65 lb.

Ship can't weigh more than it displaces. Roughly 35'X120'X1000'.

Thus you went way under the actual weight by x65.

[Montfort]

I went to the christening of the Stennis.

Thanks for the beautiful picture!