And snakes. Don't forget the snakes.

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yeah, those come out of Air Force One.

I don't have any problem considering or believing this report, given Bull Sharks are not only able to swim and live in both salt and fresh water, but they have already got a 'record' for taking lives in inland waterways in the USA.

Hey, WHORE- hay- the snakes are the ones masquerading as Louisiana elected officials, who should have had a plan. As for the shark, let's hope he finds the legs of a few lootin' crackheads...

There are always alligators in the waters of southern Louisiana, so presumably that hasn't changed. However, they're more thinly distributed now, since a whole lot more of the surface of the state is now covered with water.
Sharks are not so likely, for a variety of reasons too numerous to list here, but even if a few sharks did get blown inland, shark attacks on humans are actually quite rare, despite what the tabloid media would have us believe.

Actually, the water in the city itself is quite toxic to anything in the water. Reports of dead fish and animals in the water are very common now. When they pump the water back into the lake, officials are concerned it may kill the lake itself and the bayou area of the Mississippi River delta just south.

No doubt you're right, Evan, since all the tanks of chemicals, fuels, pesticides, dry cleaning fluids, and so on were flooded along with everything else-- not to mention what everybody had in their garages and under their sinks. This (more so than sharks or gators) is always one of the biggest hazards in a flood. Needless to day, boiling that water won't make it safe to drink, either.

Sorry, guys, I would suggest that the real toxicity of all the flood waters would be the result of the sewage that's coming up into it, not the vastly diluted chemicals under peoples sinks; Most of that will be burning along with all the oil and gas that's leaking in there as well.

In flood waters, the biggest risk of death apart from drowning is always disease from soil, silt, mud and sewage. Thats why sharks wouldn't last - gills would soon clog - But reptiles would thrive.

Oh, forgot about one - Bull Sharks ( Forget the species name ) often venture up fresh waterways in search of prey, but they have some heavy-duty gill scrapers and an undetermined method of avoiding the osmotic problems of chamging from salt to fresh water. They have been seen up the MIssissippi and Amazon rivers from the sea, so they might turn up in the floodwaters as the muck begins to clear, but I suspect the 'gators will have the place pretty much staked out by then.

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