Flood stage

I'm still uploading old photos to Flickr. Here are two points of comparison for the recent rise in the Mississippi River which precipitated the first opening of the Bonnet Carre Spillway in ten years. These are two pics I took from about the same spot along the Moonwalk this year. The first shot on the left is from Easter Sunday. The second on the right is from only a few weeks later during French Quarter Fest. The angle is a bit deceptive but by the time the second photo was taken the river had completely swallowed the lowest post visible in the first photo.