John Pine (1690–1756) was an English designer, engraver, and cartographer notable for his artistic contribution to the Augustan style and Newtonian scientific paradigm that flourished during the British Enlightenment. (wikipedia)
The atmosphere here is very, very different than it was in the days following Katrina.
The question over the next months will be: How did our efforts to mitigate this measure up? ... It's quite a test, and building bigger seawalls may not be the only answer.
The pumps are strategically placed to move the water back into canals, but when Ponchartrain gets so high, there's no where to put the water.
The city needs to make sure that when people go back, they're not exposing themselves to something.
Most grabbed some stuff thinking we would be back in three days. They never expected this.
Just the sheer size of it and complexity of it, it is beyond what anybody has seen -- not just in Louisiana but anywhere.
