A last note on the chaos: I have a friend who is not a regular engineer but who did stay at a Holliday Inn last night, tell me that the way to handle the flooding is to dynamite lots of the levee so that the water level in both New Orleans and the lake are the same. He also told me that such a solution would cause anyone who did it his job because the Lefty press would jump all over it. I didn't post it but now that the water levels have been equalized the levees are being repaired.