DRAINING NEW ORLEANS

Very nice set of graphics in the New York Times, if you like to pore over maps.

You can really get an historical perspective on the pattern of development of the area, because the areas that were not flooded by Katrina were the first to develop over the centuries.

Which wasn't an accident, nor a coincidence. Our ancestors were pretty smart, too.

(Wish I could give a permalink - NT Times links don't last, and I am not enough of a whiz at HTML to outfox them.)