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.

And I know this is less interesting at the moment, but I thought I'd mention that Netscape's bit on Dr. Swinbourne's logical analysis of the Resurrection has made it to the "What's New" popup. Now the writeup says both "he has created a formula that he says shows a 97 percent certainty that Jesus Christ was resurrected by God the Father" and "Considering all these factors together, there is a one in 1,000 chance that the resurrection is not true," which seem inconsistent to me. But then again... Netscape News and religion are unmixy things.

Oh, man.

Mayor Ray Nagin said that 200 people were stranded on rooftops in the Lower Ninth Ward and several “bodies are floating in the water” in the Bywater neighborhood.

"he has created a formula that he says shows a 97 percent certainty that Jesus Christ was resurrected by God the Father" and "Considering all these factors together, there is a one in 1,000 chance that the resurrection is not true,"

Maybe he was resurrected by somebody else. Maybe somebody named "Eddie".

I am earwormed with "The only living boy in New York":

I can get all the news I need/On the weather report...

And now I'm earwormed with it.

ION, I just had to show incompetent!boss how to (I swear to you) change the font size and leading in a fricking WORD DOCUMENT.

Maybe those bodies are from the aboveground cemetaries? When talking about potential toxic waste, etc., on the news last night, they included corpse upheaval as a potential source of disease if the city floods.