Wow, that's just plain weird. I went first to look for the parishes that I had been entering data for, which was Jefferson, St. John the Baptist and Plaquemines - the one that's supposed to have lost so much land after they put in that "Mr. Go" sea lane thing that hardly even gets used.

I have to belive that there's got to be some kind of reasonable explanation, but then again.......

btw, it occurred to me while driving to school today that it might be an interesting exercise to try to determine the timelines of requests and responses with one of the major hurricanes that hit FL last year and compare and contrast that to Katrina. The population of NOLA may make it too skewed to work as I don't remember if there was a FL city of size involved. I'd do it myself, but I don't have nearly as much putertime as I'd need.