Hurrican Gustav

Last week, I got back from Red Cross disaster relief in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I was there 2 weeks doing damage assessment. I find these trips very interesting but 2 weeks of sleeping on a cot with 150-200 people in the same room is enough for me. About 3000 homes had major damage or were destroyed. Most of the damage was from trees falling on the homes. I got there about 4 days after the hurricane and there were no stop lights (every corner was a 4 way stop), no stores open, no gas stations open. That's kind of an eery feeling when there are no services available. There were 1000 utility trucks from around the country trying to restore power. I think every power line in the state was down.

Jan