At 4:00 PM on Sunday, August 28th, "National Hurricane Center Meteorologist Chris Lauer said Katrina was still on track to hit the New Orleans area as a devastating Category 5 hurricane as its eye comes ashore" on Monday morning, August 29th, Gordon Russell [http://www.nola.com/hurricane/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1125283537138730.xml wrote] in ''The Times-Picayune''.
Also, on Sunday, August 29th28th, Max Mayfield, still "worried about Hurricane Katrina ... even talked about the force of Katrina during a [http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/images/20050828-1_p082805pm-0101-515h.html video conference call] to President Bush at his ranch in Crawford, Texas."
===Flooding in New Orleans===