Good article, Angelle, but living outside all the flood zones, I'm not going to worry about it. Of course, if another Hurricane Mitch hits with 6 feet of rainfall, I'll need to make a flood insurance claim even North of I-12 in Slidell, which is being widened, including the world's strongest median barrier. (It resembles a weak, pre-Katrina, COE flood wall.) If only they could have built a sound barriers on both sides of the thing. I guess they think all that 18 wheeler tire noise stops at 200 feet from the pavement. Thankfully, brick walls and insulated windows stop 99% of it at 1,000 feet. Not that CNBC is ever off the giant screen TV. Only the noise from the Norfolk Southern RR at one mile, or the NASA rocket engine test stands in the Stennis Space Center at 10 miles, can interrupt that din. During the recent test firing of the new J2X rocket engine, I could FEEL my garage door vibrating. I guess that is why the German rocket scientists set up a 10km acoustic easement around those things for the Saturn V Moon rocket testing.
Bill S.

Now if they can just get their revised non-certified levee plan done 1,000's of studies can be done!!