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As Hurricane Ike's eye was coming ashore in Texas it was causing a little havoc a couple hundred miles to the East. Here the hurricane had pushed the Gulf Of Mexico back up the Mississippi River to near overflowing. This ship had lost one of its anchors hold and as a feeder band came in it would blow the ships stern upriver, when the wind subsided the rivers flow would push the stern back downriver. You can see waves and small whitcaps being blown upriver. The levee's concrete retaining wall which is chest high on a grown man is also visible. I captured this image from the rofftop cupola of a historic landmark home just one block from my own home in St Bernard Parish. I live in Arabi just five miles from the French Quarter.