[dirtboy]

When the news is overblown and exxagerated, I will point it out.

You don't friggin KNOW what is overblown. I'm watching several radar and sat maps - and the danger point for surge in NO was when the eyewall was due east of the city. The winds might have reduced, but there was still a lot of danger at that point.

So, once again, please either post some content or lurk.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Second point to consider: All that rain falling NOW right of NO hasn't combined (flowed together yet) into what little flood control drainage paths are available. (Some of which/many of which are going to be clogged with debris.)

BUT - all of the remaining rain up the Mississippi Valley/Ohio Valley/Tennessee Valley over the next 4 days of continual rainfall WILL eventually flow south into the same Mississippi flood plain. A few days after that, and ALL of that water will going into and through NO through what's left of the dikes.

IF there were holes in the initial pass of the hurricane, then the river water will cause even more flooding when it goes past.