Oh New Orleans,

what a town you were...

An article published in this morning's NYT quoted a guy who lives in my neighborhood who had only a foot of water in his house. That suggests I might still have something to salvage and my cat might still be hanging on. But I don't know what time he was interviewed. I've also read that the water is getting deeper, not going down.

Tulane's administration has effectively disappeared. That's my ghetto Wal-Mart getting looted. It's hard to feel too bad about that, but the news of hundreds of stolen guns is pretty scary. I also heard a radio report about a hostage crisis at the Orleans Parish Prison, though I haven't seen that reported elsewhere.

I'm so grateful that I got out.