[Wonder Warthog]

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".

[spectre]

In defense of our Weather people, IF I saw a storm that large heading for my home, they wouldn't have to tell ME to evacuate. Jeez.

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