Pumps' Perplexities

Daily monitoring of the New Orleans paper is very informative
at times.....While the story is 'local', it may not be picked up
by the national media even though they have news bureaus
in the city.....

The latest story is regarding the possible failure of the levees
due to the draught......Some people are seeing some damage
to the levees caused by the lack of rain and the heat.....(The
media may pick this up as a global warming story.).....I can
just see the headline now, "GLOBAL WARMING CAUSES
LEVEE FAILURE IN NO'.........

The good news is that the Coliseum in New Orleans has been
reopened for tourist and convention trade.....Bad news is
the drug gangs are back and fighting for their control of
the tourist trade......Will keep you posted......Pumps