I'm OK and thanks for asking. I'm away on a business trip to West Africa so I missed the storm. My house is around 2 hours away from New Orleans and wasn't affected by the winds. My wife, however, is an Registered Nurse and is now working overtime to look after the influx of extrz patients that have been evacuated to safer areas. She's also had to do a bus trip to another city close to New Orleans to collect some more seriously ill people to bring back to her Hospital.
I'm sure most of you have seen the pictures of New Orleans and Biloxi, but I've been emailed quite a few pictures taken by helicopter pilots checking on the oil rigs of towns further South. Places like Venice and Fourchon in Louisiana have been virtually wiped out. It's going to take years to sort out the damage as the affected area is greater than the size of the UK. You can throw as much money as you like at the reconstruction, but there is only a finite number of trained construction workers and equipment. There are apparently homes in Florida that still haven't been repaired from LAST YEAR'S storms.
