I had this dream last night that there were these heavy rains being forecast for the area which would raise the river to dangerous levels. Some neighbors and I must have been on top of the World Trade Center or something because I could see the flooding start to engulf houses building on the other side of the East Bank levee. I was watching a small one get tossed around and I motioned for one of my friends to come to the window and look but then the structure just broke apart.
Everybody was very worried about their houses and asking each other questions when someone came in and said they were going to blow the levee further up the river to divert the flood. It must have happened shortly thereafter because the water level started to lower and then amazingly it began to flow backward. It went down so much that we started to walk out onto parts of it and wade out into others. My fiance marveled at how the huge ships could pass in such shallow water and someone began explaining principles of buoyancy.
We must have walked back across the river to Algiers Point because we met up with some other neighbors and started talking. People started driving trucks around where the river was. We drove up the banks and waved at folks and met people we never knew before and carried on with them about how crazy it all was. Old men had rocking chairs out on the level and wore large hats.
My fiance said, “Now we can walk to the Quarter!”
Then the river got to flowing again and a guy lost his white truck.
Then the cat scratched the bed and I woke up.