many river stages whether it s baton rouge, mississippi river and many others the predicted forecasted crest has gone down significantly and that is good news for everyone. kristin: i know all flooding is bad flooding, but where does barry stack up in terms of this confluence of it barry plus all of the rain and snow melt which has been very heavy throughout the winter and spring this year, the confluence of these two events where does it stack up? very significant. remind everyone the wettest our country has been in 125 years. started taking records in 1895 and we never had a record like this so all of the water has passed the root of new orleans. there have been areas devastated like the southern delta and mississippi. abyss rain will continue to hamper efforts to get those areas drained and i don t think we will get much cropping done in that area this year so it s been a tragic