Has anyone written a mythical account of the flooding of New Orleans? First the angry god sent a useless president, then an ineffectual storm. Then in a fury he smote the levees with his sword of justice and drowned all the evil doers in the French Quarter. But some managed to escape to a giant coliseum where he trapped them without food or water or medical supplies. Was it forty days and forty nights? I forget. I do remember that the Canadians from the North arrived first to help.