I just mean the really specific stuff, down to which streets are flooding worst. As always, it's been wonderful to have invisible friends offering sympathy.

I've been doing the hmmm, have I been there? and then trying to picture it underwater, like I did when Prague flooded a few years ago. I still can't quite believe that happened. I mean, my metro stops were ....underwater. Rivers. It just doesn't seem possible.

The specific stuff is certainly of interest. And if sharing makes you feel better (it certainly made me fell better when my city was whomped) that's all the interest that's needed anyway.

"Warning: This product contains chemicals, including lead, known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reporductive harm. Wash hands after handling."

That's what it says on a set of computer cables (VGA, USB, audio) that we just got.

Hmmm... I'll go put on my HAZMAT suit before I hook everything up. And I suppose I'll have to forgo my usual habit of licking new computer cables....

I was just talking to a woman from Austria the other day, and she was saying last time there were floods there (the other week?), she called home and her mother said, "No, no -- everything's fine here. The floods are on the other side of the country." The woman I know was like, "MOM. I saw a picture online of YOUR BLOCK under water."

Families are classic.

Also, I'm totally going to stab my boss today. He is such a FUCKING JOKER.

Willliams Boulevard in Kenner is flooded north of I-10 to just before the lake levee, officials said.

That's on the west side. So flooding on either side of the Quarter. (And mind, the whole thing is surrounded by water.) That's not so good.

WDSU reporter Heath Allen says he is stranded on the second floor of the St. Bernard Parish government building. He said officials are telling him the water is 15 to 20 feet deep on the streets throughout the parish.

From MSNBC:

National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield warned that New Orleans would be pounded throughout the day and that Katrina’s potential 15-foot storm surge, down from a feared 28 feet, was still enough to cause extensive flooding.

So the worst of the storm surge is yet to come?

The tides would influence the storm surge too, tommyrot.

I really like this photo. That's so me. Just a cigarette, a beer... and a portable DVD player. Mine you, I wouldn't be quite so sanguine about that wall of glass I was sitting near.