NO REROUTING OLD MAN RIVER. Rita has moved north and east more expeditiously than originally anticipated. I'm not sure whether this afternoon's rain qualifies as a rain band from that tropical storm, or simply tropical moisture sucked up by the low over Lake Superior being wrung out by the polar air north of that. On the radar it sure looks like circulation around Rita, or ex-Rita.

I'm quite happy to put away my fears of the Mississippi cutting a new course to the sea, but long term my money is still on Old Man River rather than the Army Corps.