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  • How high is Metairie's popular hill at the Shrine on Airline?

Also on today's calendar: Coffee Connections Metairie October and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why do Norway's navy ships all have barcodes? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Humid with a t-storm in spots, with a high of 85 and low of 74 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Humid with a stray t-storm, temps: high: 84, low: 73.
  • Thursday: Sun and areas of high clouds, with a high of 85 and low of 74 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• New Orleans is a flat city, but where are the highest and lowest points? It's complicated. (nola.com) — Metairie gets a nod as home to one of the region's higher hangout spots: the Levee hill at the Shrine on Airline baseball stadium, where fans can sit above the field. The story explains how New Orleans' flat, delta landscape makes finding true high and low points tricky, highlighting a few elevated neighborhoods and the city's lowest-lying residential areas.
   

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  • Louisiana man has state's first single incision, robotic-assisted lung surgery (nola.com)
  • Flood advisory in effect for parts of New Orleans area as storms bring heavy rains (nola.com)
  • Mold, leaks, more: Kenner spends millions to fix Pontchartrain Center ahead of Pelicans G-League (nola.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why do Norway's navy ships all have barcodes?" — So when they come back to port they can just scan-da-navi-an! (Thank you Jessica C. for sending it in!)
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