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Originally Posted by SacTown Chronic
I'm reading but not really comprehending. I cannot wrap my mind around it. 
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Ask and ye shall receive
Clean up continues here, but very slowly. Most all of our local resources have been directed to the coast. Scattered spots of town are just now beginning to get power back. I'm waiting to hear from the Corps now if I'll need to go to work today. Late yesterday, the emergency ops teams we were supporting were dispatched further south. The past 2 days we've been working off a generator which provides only enough power for lights and a few scattered computers. If any of you have lived through a hurricane, you know the skies are generally clear right after and it gets dreadfully hot which is what we've seen. But people are pulling together, checking on their neighbors and getting the older folks some relief from the heat. There's not a generator for sale within miles of here. We heard last night that WalMart had dispatched trucks with generators to the general area.
I was able to get some television news last night for the first time. They were talking about a total mandatory evacuation from the NO metro area. As chilling as that sounds, I think it's for the best. Health conditions in the NO area are only going to get worse. I still haven't been able to get word from my friend who was hospitalized at Tulane, but I did hear they were evacuating patients to facilities outside of the damaged areas. Hopefully, I'll hear something today. I still don't have any word on how levee repairs are going. Those of you with uninterruped television coverage probably know more about that than I do.
If you haven't already, please consider sending a contribution to the Red Cross. They're in the thick of things down there and need our support. If not money, give blood.
I'll post again when I can.