High tech look at N.O. after Katrina

New Orleans Flood Map

This link is to a commercial site which has created a geographical information system (GIS) that allows you to click on a point on the map of the N.O. area and get an estimate of the water depth at that point. It makes you wonder why the State of Louisiana isn't doing this.

Of course, if people who have evacuated had an easy way to find out that their home wasn't really underwater, they might be tempted to return. That can't be allowed. The rich get to send in hired guns to protect what's left of their property, but the poor and the middle class can be pushed around at will.