The levee system is still in a weakened condition,

The levee systems are very wet, they're somewhat weakened, and any type of storm surge would cause flooding both in our parish and in other parishes. So we're not taking any chances,

I'm always concerned about it because of our levee being so battered and beaten, ... But with the Corps working the way they're working I'm getting more comfortable every day.

I'm hoping to come up with a system that if we do have to do any mass demolitions down in the Lower Ninth Ward, ... that we figure out a proper compensation formula for those homeowners and they move either back in those areas or in an area that is comparable.

The system weakened as it hit Slidell (La.). It really didn't do much to Mississippi.

The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded.