The guilt is killing me

When Steve posted that weather map and noted the fate of New Orleans ,I commented how the people that didn't evacuate were probably to drunk, ha ha very funny, whats going on there is no laughing matter now. Having spent some time in N O I can't believe the devistation I see on T V the pictures remind me of the recent sunami. One of the memories that stuck with me from my time there was playing softball in a city park, the participants simply called the park "the levee", after the game I climbed to the top of the grassy bank maybe a 30 - 40 foot tall levee, then crossing the flat top about 200 feet to look at the river that was only about 6 feet from the top of the levee. I remember thinking then the river is higher than evry thing I could see on the low side. The concept of city lower than surrounding water seems to be working against them now in a big way.