And its all coming to New Orleans! We're watching the river rise and wondering what level of safety "valves" will be opened. There's the bypass to Lake Pontchartrain, the Bonnet Carre ("Bonny Carry") that opens first, and the ultimate - the Morganza Spillway which will divert additional flows down the Atchafalaya (A chaf a lie a, all short "a"). Old Man River keeps wanting to go down the Atchafalaya, and he might get his chance.

Hope your levees hold. Those of us down river are holding our breaths.