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I have been wondering how different parts of New Orleans made out. I still have a number of friends there as well as many favorite memories. Click here for a tremendous interactive map showing the maximum flooding and current water level for any point on a richly detailed map.

Tulane's campus came away quite well. The parts of campus where most of the academic buildings are located suffered minimal flooding. The parts of campus where the more serious flooding of 2 or 3 feet occurred are home mostly to residence halls, athletics complexes and parking. I saw rain-triggered flooding of 3+ feet twice during my years there; this flood is not as deep although it has stood longer. Campus is designed to withstand occasional floodwaters.

Most of my various apartments around campus should be fine. Zero to 3 ft of flooding but all the houses are built up off the ground.

The French Quarter suffered minimal flooding, less than a foot in most places and 0.0 ft in many places. Pat O'Brien's, 0.0 ft. Tom, Cafe du Monde is safe - 0.0 ft. Mardi Gras will roll, says Blaine Kern in today's news.

My friend in Harahan, 0.0 ft of flooding.

My friend on the other side of the Mississippi, no problem. The river levees held. All the flooding is between the lake and the river.

My friend in New Orleans East, trouble. Flooding topped out at 7.9 ft on hs block, down to 3.4 ft presently. He has lost everything. That was one way to get rid of the cat urine smell.

UNO took a beating.

Tragically, the areas with the 6-10 feet of flooding are heavily residential. The business district is not wet and neither is the Quarter, but a lot of the people who made those places go have nowhere to live.