On a more serious note: In 2005, Hurricane Katrina put enough water to flood my house 2 feet deep. It put water in an area we call the "Lower 9th Ward" (wards & precincts apply in New Orleans voting districts). Water deep enough to be even with the eaves of 1-story houses - and sometimes higher. Back then, one of our Navy operators was in his house, had to go up into the attic, and used a hatchet to hack a hole in his roof so he could get above the flood waters. He was rescued by boat from his rooftop. Another of our operators had a disabled husband who was so immobilized by illness that they decided to try to stick through it. Three weeks later her son found his parents' bodies encased in thick mud that had risen to ceiling level. So G., I feel the pain. I lived through it 17 years ago. Then Ida came along last year and messed up our roof - but she was just a big windbag that took down a few big trees in our neighborhood. Not that much rain. Not zero - but not deep, flooding rain.
