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To: Suma who wrote (5293)	11/14/2005 9:54:44 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541925

That's a good story. Thanks. My brother, a nurse, was there for almost two months. He was one of the people that went there the first week, going in and out with cops and firemen from all over the country. First he was in a group put together by Mobile Oil, then just ad hoc. He stayed usually with my sister in Baton Rouge, come home at night and then go back in the morning. He's a big tough guy with a nurse practitioner's license, the cops loved him. I wish he'd write some of the things he saw. Everybody else I know from there wound up leaving, evacuating, looking out for Number One and their own families. He's the only one I know who spent all day every day there, helping others, no pay, nothing but the gratitude of the people he helped. I sent him money but he gave it away.

To: Suma who wrote (5293)	11/14/2005 11:22:50 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 541925

BTW, doesn't matter how low the river was, it wasn't the Mississippi River that flooded the city, it was the lake, Lake Pontchartrain, a tremendous lake, 40 miles wide, 24 miles north to south, connected to the Gulf of Mexico. Actually flood waters came from the Gulf of Mexico into the lake, so technically it was the Gulf that engulfed the region. Thalassa, the sea. Ironic, that, at least to me. After all the years I feared the power of the Mississippi River but felt safe from the ocean living in New Orleans, it was the ocean that flooded the city. If you look at a map, you can see how it happened. But most people have almost zero comprehension of geography. Even my own family. I cannot get them to look at maps or think about where they are. The predictions of New Orleans flooding, if I recall correctly, always hypothesized that a hurricane would come up the Mississippi and push water up the Mississippi and overtop the levees on the River. I don't think I ever read a prediction that the lake would flood. Although I do recall asking a city planner, what happens if the lake floods, how will they pump out the city, and not getting a good answer.