[Dog Gone]

I'm not terribly worried about the levees on the Mississippi. They're awfully big and the river really isn't pushing the banks.

I'm not sure it really matters, though. The damage has been done. What I thought was going to happen the day of the hurricane happened the next day instead. The city will be uninhabitable for weeks at best.

And when people try to live in uninhabitable areas, they die. So the main question is how or if you can get these people out. The window for this is not long. You can't live in the attic or on the roof of your house in the hot Louisiana sun without water for a week, that's for certain.

This is going to get far more ugly in the next few days.

[Battle Hymn of the Republic]

your right, it is certainly going to get much worse... the next couple days are critical.

[hole_n_one]

You did a fine job in scraping all of the sugar off.

[Jeff Head]

You are right DG. It's a critical time and the window for orderly conduct is closing rapidly (ahs already clearly closed in some areas) and as that builds, the night will be long indeed.

Even in the superdome where the number of officials and the relief effort is probably the strongest...things are getting testy and dire.

I pray the NG and needed equipement to evacuate people and to establish and maintain order during it, gets in there within the next 12-18 hours.

[Peach]

I'm glad you think the levee holding the Mississippi will hold.

2-3 days at most before disease and total chaos sets in. It's going to be ugly to bear because we won't see what IS being done.

[Howlin]

This is going to get far more ugly in the next few days.

I agree; think Escape from New York.