I do not understand how anyone can say a bullet has been dodged. It is going to rain for a week and all that water will be coming down the Mississippi, wnon't it?
Actually, no. Most rainfall on south Louisiana drains away via the swamps and smaller rivers---not the Mississippi. Add to that that the Mississippi levees are designed to handle 3X the 1927 flood--an amount of water that is vastly larger than it is possible for any hurricane to "dump".