User blog:Bzero/New Orleans Residents Handling Flood

DENVER (AP) – With Florida completely flooded and most coastal towns under water, millions of Americans have been evacuated by the Autobots and FEMA to temporary shelters as the water level continues to rise unabated. As officials race to provide food and water to the historic number of refugees, former New Orleans residents seem to be taking the situation in stride.

Residents who have survived killer hurricanes such as Betsy, Camille and Katrina don’t seem to react to the comparatively calmer, steady rise of ocean water which flooded their city, as well as most of the Mississippi valley, in the past few months.

"It's a lot of water. It's nothing, nothing to Katrina," said Malcolm James, 59, a federal investigator in New Orleans who lost his home after levees broke during Katrina in August 2005 and had to be airlifted by helicopter.

"This is mild," he said. "Things could be worse."

More than 140 more people have been confirmed killed in the past week, and thousands are missing from Florida to Maine. Power has been knocked out to millions, and it is too soon to tell if the Autobots will be able to stop the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific from continuing to rise until it swallows the rest of the United States.