New Orleans is being evacuated, so I'm told

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Speaking of sports, WBRC is also reporting the New Orleans Saints may be calling the Crimson Tide's old home, Legion Field in Birmingham, their new home for the season. I wonder if anyone will come to their games? The Saints haven't exactly had many sellout crowds like the Titans have.

I was watching an interview with an "expert"-- I can't remember what she does-- and she was saying that many of the marsh lands which have now been cleared for homes and other inhabitants used to protect much of the land from such a severe impact of natural disasters like this. The swamps were some place where the water could go (instead of into downtown New Orleans) and also buffered wind and rain. If the swamps lands hadn't been decimated (same for Florida), she said many of these hurricane disasters wouldn't have been as bad-- aside from the fact that fewer people would also be living there and thus died.

Not sure anyone knows of anyone down in the affected area by Hurricane Katrina but there is a list of survivors up now that is searchable and gives status and all, not all have last names listed.

Hurricane Katrina Survivors List

Oddly I find it somewhat ironic that one of the Canadian bands, The Tragically Hip (one of my favorite Canadian bands) put out a song 'New Orleans is Sinking', if they had only known how realistically possible that would be. It was put out back in the 1990's.

This is undoubtedly a morbid and perhaps ill-timed thought, but yesterday after talk of extreme flooding I began thinking about all those above ground-graves and wondering if they're were, um... still intact.

Not pretty.

I saw one picture taken of many coffins strewned along the beach, I believe in New Orleans or somewhere near there that wasn't under water.

Again, not pretty.