If what you says is true, that will put Lake P none feet above normal. Storm surge is forecast at 6 to 8 feet, so this will make it worse. I think they will sum greater than either contributing factor, because water is slow draining from Lake P.
Hate to say it but I think downtown is going to flood again.
New Orleans got very lucky last night...a train of very heavy rain band hit the same area over and over again last night dumping 1-3 inches per hut for several hours, it set up about 10 miles west up to baton rouge
I am having a hard time believing it is true. If those locks were stuck in open after Katrina, people driving down I10 from BR over the spilllway would have seen it and reported it.
It is a dramatic sight, I have seen them opened once a few years ago when the river was very high, up to the top of the levee almost, and I drove down to see them opened as I neveer had seen it. It is amazing, huge walls of locks.
I think people may be scared that is happening.