Interesting aerial shots of NOLA

from the Times-Picayune today:
High Mississippi River water disrupts river traffic, empties corps' dredging budget, delays hurricane levees | NOLA.com
In the shot of the Bonnet Carre Spillway, that is I - 10 right next to the lake edge. If you've ever driven into NOLA from the north or west, you've passed over this area. There is a road sign indicating the BC Spillway there.
Then there is a series of pictures of Algiers Point, just across the river from the French Quarter. In the first picture you can see the NATCHEZ heading downstream at the extreme right of the shot. Those two large gray vessels docked on the east bank are MARAD fast ready reserve ships, the CAPE KENNEDY and the CAPE KNOX. They are both supply vessels ro-ros (roll on roll on roll off) with a large ramp on the stern to accommodate semis delivering the supplies. Both have made several trips to the Middle East in recent years. They are docked at the Poland St. wharf, part of which was starting to be converted into a third cruise ship terminal pre-Katrina. So far the need to host 3 cruise ships at once hasn't occurred. The land on Algiers Point is flooded between the two levees, but this was done intentionally to equalize the pressure on the levee. A gate was opened in the old levee, it was not overtopped or breached. That new levee about 50 yards back has been in place over a decade, as it was feared the original one wouldn't last much longer. The green rectangle on a metal stand in the bottom left of the picture is a daymark, mile 95 AHP. At this point there are 95 more river miles to AHP (above Head of the Passes), then another 20 miles through Southwest Pass before reaching the Sea Buoy, hence a total of 115 river miles to the Gulf - this is across the river from the Moonwalk and FQ. I hope this info gives those who've never been to NOLA a little background on what they are looking at. Also in this article it is mentioned that the CG reopened the river at Natchez yesterday, allowing one tow at a time to proceed through the harbor as slowly as possible.