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It's annoying you know, I sit all day at work, come up with these long pithy posts and great verbage for my novel - get home? Gone and all I want to do is veg. Watched the news tonight, for a change of pace - usually skip it since depressing, but wanted to know about Katrina.
Then picked up the phone and called my mother who is an information junkie. Also lives just off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina. Katerina apparently was a category 4, possibly 5 hurricane when it rolled over the coast of Missippi and leveled every town in sight. Then blasted New Orleans with a storm surge strong enough to weaken its levees and flood the entire city. It wasn't the storm itself that hurt New Orleans, it was the effect the storm had on the levees, causing the lake to flood into the city, which is below sea level. People who had evacuated this weekend and came back to check their homes on Tuesday, discovering them to be fine and dandy, were in for a shock on Wed, when the levees broke. The deluge did not stop until the lake and the city had the same amount of water. So technically speaking? New Orleans is now a lake. ( Read more... )