New Orleans: Dying to Party?

I have a book that I've been writing in my head for a couple of years about the world after the greenhouse effect actually happens. Part of the buildup to the action of my story is description of things that happen when the weather changes radically. One thing I had basically written was a scene about New Orleans during the change, where the streets were flooded and hundreds of thousands of people died while the more than 30 feet under sea level water surge came in.

I'm afraid, actually, that I'll never be able to write that story now. Why? Because I'm really afraid for the people who are in New Orleans right now that this scene will actually happen early tomorrow morning. Fox news has guys on the street right now interviewing people who haven't left, who say that either they can't leave, or that it's "none of your fucking business" why they haven't (that is what one guy said... I can't help but think this rude guy may be dead tomorrow!).

It's not going to be pretty, folks. I love New Orleans, but I can see this party atmosphere, and the crazy people just saying "ah, nothing bad will happen" and drinking and then when this bad ass mofo comes in tomorrow morning, people will see. Hurricanes are nothing to fool with, and New Orleans is kind of "the perfect storm" of cities for a real disaster to happen. I pray that it won't, but I'm quite afraid it will. Maybe they'll be lucky and be spared the direct path of this Katrina. But right now it doesn't look good.

Thank god my sister, who lives in New Orleans, left yesterday already. I talked to her and she said it took her something like 8 or more hours to get 100 miles away from the city. (A trip that normally would have taken, what, about an hour 1/2? Maybe two in traffic?)

I dread waking up to see what is going to happen. I really do. And I'm a little pissed that a scene I thought of for my book is going to totally be ruined because once this really does happen, people will say it's in poor taste for me to actually write a scene like this, or they'll just say I was copying the flood of '05. You heard it here first, man. It's going to be a Hell of a night (morning) in New Orleans.