Cuts to the Army Corps levee inspection budget in New Orleans, a place that famously doesn't have to worry about levees. Also struck by slower reduction in inspection quality, and its parallels to descriptions of PG&E line inspections in California Burning. Maintenance is a thankless task.

Finally made the pilgrimage to the Old River “Control” Complex and the Morganza Spillway.

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

Southern most point in Illinois. Confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers