Thanks for the emails and calls. The immediate family is doing fine. During the storm, the worst in Baton Rouge was downed power lines and tree branches. The power to our house is still down and not expected to be up until Saturday. We are staying with my wife's aunt as she has power and AIR CONDITIONING!!! Our small sales office has turned into a mini refugee camp with other employees and family staying here until the power is back up. Extended family from New Orleans has moved in with other relatives in Baton Rouge for an indefinite period as their homes are probably completely destroyed. But that's only the worst from a physical point of view.
Emotionally, Baton Rouge is just as devastated. Over night we have gone from the second biggest city in Louisiana to the first. Nearly 100,000 refugees are seeking shelter in Baton Rouge and Lafayette. Last account, New Orleans will not be habitable for 2-4 months, and not just a neighborhood or two but the whole city as well as the surrounding suburbs. Right now it looks like the entire power and water utilities will have to be rebuilt from the ground up, and most of the brick and wood homes will have to be rebuilt too. This is just the tip of the ice berg as we are heading into a period of rebuilding never seen before in America.
New Orleans isn't the only Louisiana area to suffer such devastation. The entire parishes (counties) of St. Bernard and Plaquemines are under 10-20 feet of water. One politician said after a fly over that the these parishes have been swallowed up by the Gulf of Mexico.
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