New Orleans Mayor Orders Forced Evacuation:

To the estimated 10,000 residents still believed to be holed up in this ruined city, the mayor had a blunt new warning: Get out now — or risk being taken out by force.

Wow–10,000 still in the city. And while on one level I can see wanting to stay with your home if it was possible to do so, staying is risking death, so I really don’t get it.

And that’s not good:

Although toxic flood waters receded inch by inch, only five of New Orleans’ normal contingent of 148 drainage pumps were operating, the Army Corps of Engineers said.