Lee, it is not below sea in the Mississippi delta. It isn't more than 2 feet or more above the gulf. It is mostly bayou, swampy, marsh mush. What isn't swamp is sand. A good portion of New orleans is below sea level. In the parish where we worked ( 40 miles below New Orleans )there is a place where the dikes aren't very far apart. Single story houses are below the dike level. Katrina hit almost dead center on Sulfer Spring where Diamond is located. A 25 foot tidle wave came in over the dike. When it was all over the dikes held the water in. The army corp of engineers had to blow the dike to let the water out, but that was weeks after it was flooded. It is still a waste land of trash and building parts. Seventy per cent of the people never came back. If you were born here and this is the only life you ever knew, it would be hard to give it up. It is funny to have a 4 lane highway down here, and almost no traffic at all, everyone is almost gone. ...............bob
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