[SkyPilot]

They actually have an excellent pump system in New Orleans. It can even handle a 15 inch rain storm in a day or so. I heard on the TV that many of the pumps were designed and built 100 years ago, and that they still worked brilliantly.

But they require electricity. There isn't going to be any electricity for a long time.

Your husband is right about the lake and the mighty Mississippi. This is very, very bad.

[ordinaryguy]

They also require someplace to pump the water into. Apparently the water from one of the breeches was being pumped right back to its source, only to return again. Unless the pumps work faster than the leak, the pumps will lose that game every time.