Ho Hum

Well, it didn't rain today, but otherwise it was kind of a boring ho-hum kind of day. The morning training ride was a typical Wednesday affair of moderate pace and no surprises. It was actually a pretty good ride, although my head was elsewhere most of the time.

Spent some time jumping through various administrative hoops for the state office of community services. Things like state "locator codes" and contract forms and organizational charts.

The Corps of Engineers released (under some duress) their "inundation maps" for the city that show how deep flooding would get in the event of a storm surge that required closing of the new "interim" flood gates. You see, closing off the drainage canals with flood gates will stop the storm surge from coming in from Lake Pontchartrain and flooding the city, but it also stops the pumping stations from being able to pump rainwater out. So they have to build special pumps to get the water over the floodgates, and of course those won't all be operatonal for another year or so. In the meantime, if we have to close the floodgates and we also get some serious rainfall at the same time (i.e. 6-9 inches of rain in 6 hours), the maps show how deep the water will get. Luckily, I would be high and dry, theoretically. If we make it though this hurricane season, things should be better by '07. Theoretically.