Rain, street flooding. During JazzFest.

Two solid days of heavy rain. I live on high ground in the city (4-5 feet above sea level, according to my landlord…) and don’t have a car, so I only (fingers crossed, knock on wood) have to contend with the flood that my neighbors’ gutters pour along the side of my building, which sometimes sweeps the garbage cans away and topples them over in my front yard. Soggy nauseating mess afterwards, I can tell you, but then again not such a big deal, relatively speaking. Some areas have seen some pretty severe street flooding, and as you can see from readers’ comments to this Times-Picayune article on flooding in Algiers (that’s in the Westbank), there’s much chatter and wonderment over the nefarious pumps. The city is under a flood warning for about another two hours.