Just wondering if your keeping your head above water semi? Been watching all the news about the flooding down yonder, its a bad deal. All the people losing their homes and farm ground. We had a lot of local flooding here but not on the scale you folks are getting.

Never let go, Jack... Never let go.

But seriously, I hope you're staying dry. It looks like a bad deal down there.

was watching that on the news this morning. Some bad stuff!

Lightly rained ALL night here in southern CO but we needed it badly.

I feel really bad for all those people down there. Hope your doing o.k. Semi. That goes for everyone else living down there, too.

we'll see semi come floatin down on his case of scotch!

I tell ya it is bad over there for sure, I wish we could get some of that rain over here in Oklahoma its seems all the storms are going right by us and slamming everybody to the east.

Jason

Thanks for the thoughts guys. I'm about ten miles upriver from the French Quarter and a half mile from the Mississippi River levee. If the levee ever failed in our area it would flood the entire New Orleans metropolitan area, probably in the neighborhood of fifteen or twenty feet deep. Right now I can stand on top of the levee and the water level is about six feet below my feet on the river side - about the same height of the roof peaks of single story houses on the land side.

dont be standin on anything! A man your age could easily break a hip and no one would find you..... Unless!


You have life alert!

I've fallen in the levee, and I can't get up!

Those levees are the closest thing we have to a hill around here. No big deal because I'm no fan of walking uphill. But it's nice to stroll along the crown of the levee and watch the ship and barge traffic on the river and the gals jogging atop the levee. Lots of variety - the boats move along nice and smooth and the gals bounce up and down.