This is our usual path to the River but now the River is coming to us down the path. The River was rising as we watched.
Marking 21 feet at the Bonnet Carre' Spillway gauge at noon, I am sure that by tomorrow morning it will be 22 feet. This is not a rise to be taken lightly as flooding is occurring from Memphis on down. A town 20 miles upriver has reached flood stage.
This appears as bad as the 1973 flood when the Corps of Engineers destroyed Perilloux Plantation house, my brother's house, my sister's house and 41 other houses in Montz. Hopefully this levee we are standing on, the levee that caused the upheaval of the town, will hold the River back.
This is a mile upriver from the Bonnet Carre' Spillway so the opening tomorrow won't help here; it will save the City of New Orleans.