Bad News in the Big Easy

OK, what good is an online community if you can't occasionally share important links?

New Orleans. Really bad. Worse coming.

If you want to take a lesson about the pain that comes from hubris, and remind yourself that we all live in a zero-sum game, you can read this. Seems to come from a source pretty close to the wet zone (the Times-Picayune).

If you want a little backstory about the engineering involved, you can read this.

And if you want to actually do something, you can go here.