Other parts? Not so good:

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Even as reports of damage continued coming in Monday night, the full extent of the destruction in Katrina's wake was hard to gauge.

But one thing was clear: Gentilly, Treme, Bywater and the 9th Ward had been swallowed.

The exit from I-10 onto to Claiborne Avenue - and then Claiborne itself - was underwater. Ditto the intersection of I-10 and Elysian Fields, where water reached near the roof lines of homes. Homes were also inundated at the I-10 exit at Louisa Street.

St. Claude Avenue, east of the French Quarter and into St. Bernard Parish, was almost undewater.

French Quarter - not that bad

Yeah, I saw some footage on the news tonight of a guy reporting from Bourbon Street, and what I could see of the area behind him didn't look that different from a Saturday morning after a long Friday night. It looks like that part of town didn't get hit too badly.

Steph, if ever you try online dating, "beautiful majestic semicolon" has to appear in your profile somewhere.

Yes, because I'm not celibate ENOUGH....

Cindy, a "nut graf" is, in a news article (generally), the paragraph that contains the gist of the news story. It's usually -- or, rather, in a well-written article, it SHOULD be -- very close to the beginning of the article, often the 2nd or 3rd paragraph. Though, by the same token, it's generally not the first paragraph, which is often descriptive or anecdotal, to hook the reader.

Here's an example I pulled from WDSU.com:

Katrina Weakens Further; Storm Now Category 1

NEW ORLEANS -- The Big Easy is breathing a bit easier right now.

Hurricane Katrina has spared New Orleans a direct hit, but its effects are still being felt there and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast.

Less than one hour after downgrading the storm to Category 2, forecasters lowered their assessment of the hurricane to a Category 1 storm with winds of nearly 95 mph. Officials said they expect the storm to get weaker Monday as it moves over land, but widespread damage is being reported on the southern coast of neighboring Mississippi.

The nut graf is actually the 3rd paragraph there. Specifically, the sentence in blue -- it's the gist of the article, what the story is really trying to convey.

And there is nothing like an impromptu boring journalism lesson to kill a thread D-E-D.

Kat, you don't have to go back as far as the fifties. I called all my teachers Miss unless I needed to distinguish them from each other.

Prison Break re: end of hour 1...

I HATED the tattoo. I groaned out loud and rolled my eyes. Give me a break.

I didn't find it boring, Teppy. I dug it and your brains a la spicy.

But LeN, think of it as a guaranteed reason for him to take his shirt off lots.

Doesn't that make it seem better?

How did that work, anyway? I don't get it.

And there is nothing like an impromptu boring journalism lesson to kill a thread D-E-D.

That's a nut graf right there. The headline could be Thread Dead!