P.S. I would avoid going North West too.

http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/DEEPTREM/summer2005.html

But Nemesis is protecting Spidey, Mom, Hoof, several nameless others, and
Gators.

Avoid Alaska, like you would the plaque.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/quakes_big.html

http://www.ess.washington.edu/tsunami/index.html

Alan, son of Nemesis.

Anyone who doubts that I am the son of Nemesis is obviously an infidel
lacking in faith whose soul is in peril of everlasting damnation.

http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/protector.html

http://theoriginalfirebird.blogspot.com/

http://www.insurgent.org/~jhd/kookway.htm

Nemesis, winged balancer of life,
dark-faced Goddess, daughter of Justice,
You who restrain with adamantine bridles
the frivolous insolences of mortals,
and spurning the destructive violence of mankind
drive out black envy!

Beneath Your unceasing, traceless orbit
is spun the grey fortune of man
and unnoticed You walk in his tracks,
you bend the neck that is proud.
Beneath Your arm You ever measure out life
and ever do You lower Your eye to Your bosom
as You control the scales in Your hand.

Be gracious, blessed dealer of justice,
Nemesis, winged balancer of life.
Nemesis the deathless Goddess we sing,
Victory with slender wings, all-powerful
infallible, and the assistant to Justice,
You who in displeasure at the pride of men
carry it down into Tartarus.

Hey, we heard on our TVs, how Doc Killborn released the sex-flu and how
devastating the effects were, and how they had to send in so many troops to take
control. That sure is powerful stuff.

And how come he didn't take the opportunity to do some of those DNA experiments
and merge the gator DNA with that of the sharks swimming about? Venice has been
flooded for ever and they don't have sharks. Hey maybe Jethro chomped all the
sharks?

Alan, son of Nemesis.

Anyone who doubts that I am the son of Nemesis is obviously an infidel
lacking in faith whose soul is in peril of everlasting damnation.

"We love your adherence to democratic principles."

-- Vice President George Bush to Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos

http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/protector.html

http://theoriginalfirebird.blogspot.com/

http://www.insurgent.org/~jhd/kookway.htm

Nemesis, winged balancer of life,
dark-faced Goddess, daughter of Justice,
You who restrain with adamantine bridles
the frivolous insolences of mortals,
and spurning the destructive violence of mankind
drive out black envy!

Beneath Your unceasing, traceless orbit
is spun the grey fortune of man
and unnoticed You walk in his tracks,
you bend the neck that is proud.
Beneath Your arm You ever measure out life
and ever do You lower Your eye to Your bosom
as You control the scales in Your hand.

Be gracious, blessed dealer of justice,
Nemesis, winged balancer of life.
Nemesis the deathless Goddess we sing,
Victory with slender wings, all-powerful
infallible, and the assistant to Justice,
You who in displeasure at the pride of men
carry it down into Tartarus.

Oh yes, regards the pumping out, this is interesting:

Floodwater Deals Blow To Lake Pontchartrain
By Ralph Vartabedian and Marla Cone, Tribune Newspapers
Ralph Vartabedian reported from New Orleans
and Marla Cone from Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Times; Tribune news services contributed

9-16-5

NEW ORLEANS -- The high-stakes effort to bail out New Orleans is sending plumes
of contaminated, brown, stinking water into Lake Pontchartrain, setting back
years of effort to restore the environmentally sensitive home to Gulf Coast
marine life.

After festering for two weeks in residential neighborhoods, commercial districts
and industrial zones, the water is laden with bacteria, silt, petroleum products
and possibly toxic substances.

City officials have confirmed that they also are releasing untreated sewage into
the Mississippi River from one of two treatment plants operated by the Sewerage
and Water Board of New Orleans

Hurricane Katrina has forced the abandonment of normal environmental and
sanitation practices as workers scramble to preserve what's left of the city and
to prevent a breakdown of public health.

The floodwaters have high levels of fecal material, silt and other substances
that could damage the marine environment.

`Tremendous dead zone'

Martha Sutula, a senior scientist at the Southern California Coastal Water
Research Project who has studied the ecology of Louisiana wetlands, said
nutrients in the floodwaters, such as nitrates and ammonia, will likely cause
algae and phytoplankton blooms in the shallow lake and surrounding estuaries.
The blooms can deplete oxygen and suffocate marine life.

"I would imagine that you're going to have a pretty tremendous dead zone,"
Sutula said. "This is going to set them back quite a few years."

Al Naomi, a senior project engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers agreed.

"It will take years to clean up our estuaries. The lake was coming back with
manatees and fish," Naomi said. "Twenty years of effort has been wiped out in an
afternoon storm surge."

While few experts criticize the extreme measures being taken to save New
Orleans, the practices most likely violate federal laws in normal times.

"We have multiple disasters in Hurricane Katrina," said William Freudenburg, an
environmental professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. "Much of
the disaster was caused by the initial decision of where to put the city's
levees. It was turned into a human disaster by the worst response I have ever
seen by the government. Now we have a disaster on one of the most
environmentally sensitive and valuable wetlands in America."

So far, the storm is not thought to have caused toxic pollution.

The flood inundated at least one Superfund site, the Agriculture Street
landfill. The cleanup was completed before the flood, though some toxic residues
remained in the soil. Tens of thousands of inundated homes are thought to have
solvents, pesticides and other toxic substances stored in garages and under
sinks that could be leaking.

Toxins not registering

Floodwaters in six locations have been tested by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency for more than 100 chemicals; only one chemical has exceeded
EPA standards. Lead in floodwaters near an exit ramp off Interstate Highway 10
was 15 times greater than the level allowed in drinking water.

Most of the hazardous chemicals, including polychlorinated biphenyls found in
electrical equipment, and benzene found in crude oil and gasoline, were
undetectable, according to the EPA's first round of tests conducted Sept. 3.

Later testing, on Sept. 4 and Sept. 6, showed continued high levels of lead, as
well as arsenic and hexavalent chromium, the EPA said Wednesday. Thallium was
detected at slightly elevated levels at one sampling location, the agency said.

The second tests indicated higher levels of E. coli and other coliform bacteria
too, the EPA said.

Lake Pontchartrain, a shallow body of brackish water that is affected by ocean
tides, is normally blue. But the view from a helicopter this week showed at
least three large plumes of brown water leaving the 17th Street Canal, the
London Avenue Canal and the Inter Harbor Navigation Channel. Those waterways are
the main outflows for about 6.5 billion gallons of floodwaters per day from the
city's pumping stations. Even several hundred feet above the city, the air
stinks of sewage.

Marcia St. Martin, executive director of the Sewerage and Water Board, said
there was no evidence that the water being pumped into Lake Pontchartrain is a
"toxic brew."

Though the water may contain bacteria, she said, the city never treated storm
water routinely pumped in great quantities into Lake Pontchartrain.

"Fecal coliform in floodwater is normal," she said.



Alan, son of Nemesis.

Anyone who doubts that I am the son of Nemesis is obviously an infidel
lacking in faith whose soul is in peril of everlasting damnation.

"We love your adherence to democratic principles."

-- Vice President George Bush to Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos

http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/protector.html

http://theoriginalfirebird.blogspot.com/

http://www.insurgent.org/~jhd/kookway.htm

Nemesis, winged balancer of life,
dark-faced Goddess, daughter of Justice,
You who restrain with adamantine bridles
the frivolous insolences of mortals,
and spurning the destructive violence of mankind
drive out black envy!

Beneath Your unceasing, traceless orbit
is spun the grey fortune of man
and unnoticed You walk in his tracks,
you bend the neck that is proud.
Beneath Your arm You ever measure out life
and ever do You lower Your eye to Your bosom
as You control the scales in Your hand.

Be gracious, blessed dealer of justice,
Nemesis, winged balancer of life.
Nemesis the deathless Goddess we sing,
Victory with slender wings, all-powerful
infallible, and the assistant to Justice,
You who in displeasure at the pride of men
carry it down into Tartarus.

I'm so happy you and that befuddled idjit swamprat are OK. My work is
done here. I'm on my  way home. I'll chomp a wild boar on my way in.
Gather the critters together..I"ll spring BD from the house of the
terminally confused. Maybe he just needs some help building a new bar.
Summon the beavers. Tell swampat to work on a huge batch of shine to be
donated to BD's new bar. I miss your brownies. Tell Jethrine that I have
a surprize for her. jethro

My lab was unaffected by the storm.  You're way overdue for your
periodic vaginal exam, Loretta.  And if it got dunked in the flood
water, it needs to be pumped out and disinfected.  Hurry on over!
Dr Killborn