Poor New Orleans!! Poor everyone, but especially New Orleans.

Friend of mine has a house in the Bahamas, 600 frontage feet on the ocean, for sale for $1 million even. It took the worst of the last hurricane, he had no idea what happened to it for 5 days as everything was out.

Said the structure came through unscathed as it is on poles, there was considerable damage to the landscaping.

According to him, the real damage comes from the wall of water that accompanies these things, that everything is built to stand the winds.

Anyway, that's not the way it is on the Gulf Coast. Best of luck to you all.

Arf (I know it's been a long, hot summer, Maude, but stop praying for rain.)