New Orleans area weather
From the National Weather Service:
| Reporting location | NEW ORLEANS NAVAL AIR STN, LA, United States |
| Time of report | 2010.09.07 1855 UTC |
| Weather | |
| Temperature | 90.0 F (32.2 C) |
| Visibility | 10 mile(s) |
| Wind | from the ESE (120 degrees) at 10 MPH (9 KT) gusting to 21 MPH (18 KT) |
| Precipitation last hour | |
| Dew point | 73.9 F (23.3 C) |
| Relative humidity | 59% |
| Barometric pressure | 30.09 in. Hg (1018 hPa) |
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Rising Tide: the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America
by John M. Barry
Some calamities transform much more than the landscape. This bestseller shows how ineptitude and greed helped cause the flood - and how government reaction to the disaster has changed life in the Mississippi River valley to this day.
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