The flooding is just everywhere... New Orleans, all through Mississippi and Alabama,

The scope of this is just so huge. If you took New Orleans out of the equation, Mississippi and Alabama would be a bigger job than we tackled in all four of the storms that hit Florida last year.

New Orleans is flooding and southwest Louisiana is baking.

We should be thankful we don't live in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama.

[Floodwaters were still rising as much as 3 inches, or 7.6 centimeters, an hour in parts of New Orleans late Tuesday. In other areas, they were beginning to subside.] I don't want to alarm anyone that New Orleans is filling up like a bowl, ... That isn't happening.

I once paddled a canoe the length of the Mississippi River all the way from Itasca to New Orleans.