[Torie]

My examination of the terra server topo map suggests some areas in the bowl are above sea level (up to 10 feet), but maybe I am misreading it. Still the little lines have positive and negative numbers on them. How accurate the numbers are I don't know in any event. I wish someone here were really in the know.

[diogenes ghost]

As for long-term consequences of this storm, does anyone understand if this could possibly be the type of event that causes the Mississippi to divert it's main flow into the Atchafalaya? Another source of long-term economic woes, to be sure.

[Howlin]

You need Google Earth.

[Tarpon]

All I know is I was there a few years back. The startling thing is you climbed the dikes and the water was right there. You looked back into the city and it was all lower than the water. You just went yikes, what would happen if the levy broke. I suspect there may be high spots, but the whole city has been slowly sinking as the pumping has lowered the water table. There are no hills, just building and man made structures. The graves are above ground.

I used to live outside of NOLA, we had a house in Biloxi when Camille went over it, it survived.