Danger! Danger!

Yet again the city of New Orleans is in the news for flooding, though thankfully not nearly as big a story as that "other" thing that happened down there.

Apparently the rainfall has gotten so bad that the cities pumps to deal with the water have not been able to keep up, thus portions of the city were so badly flooded the city's Mayor Nagin (yes, he IS still mayor) had told motorists to not even bother accessing portions of the city's roads.

Making problems worse in New Orleans were catch basins clogged with debris from gutted or renovated homes. Jackson urged residents to clean out the basins to help in draining standing water from streets.

Meanwhile, officials closed a gate on the Harvey Canal in suburban Jefferson Parish where the waters threatened to top the walls. It was one of several in the area placed under new safety guidelines after Katrina's waters breached two New Orleans canals, causing catastrophic flooding.

I can't help but feel like this is yet another in a long list of signs to people to either build enormous walls around the city to protect from the ever encroaching waters, or basically just get the hell out of the area...

Don't get me wrong, New Orleans is truly an amazing city and among my favorite places to be, but the place is gonna disappear ala Atlantis very soon... May just be time to make peace with that and move on.

PS: No, I didn't fall off the face of the earth, though have been planning a possible triumphant return to my "home" in DC, so that has taken up a chunk of my time...