TWC just now started a story about the flooding dangers...but only "briefly" touched on the issues of toxic wastes and other chemical factors.

But man...everything that the storm surge pushes "in" to the downtown are is going to be stuck there. For a while. Levees will keep just as much in as out. I know jokes have been made about snakes and bugs and excrement floationg around...but man, with all of the sanitation plants under water and the petro-chemicals floating around...this may turn into the biggest toxic waste dump in the country. Perhaps the world?

It is only now really hitting me that the physical damage is probably going to be eclipsed by the environmental damage.

And anyone who knows NO will understand that once the emergency crews do come in, navigating will be almost impossible without really good GPS gear. Street signs gone...water two-three stories high...this is certainly going to challenge the crews.

Man...sort of unthinkable...all of this.
/Oy and Vey.