New Orleans

I knew they were having troubles in New Orleans, but this morning on the news I heard that they won't be done fixing the flooding for thirty days and residents were being told they should expect to stay away from their homes for three to four months! Holy crap! That's half a million people in New Orleans alone! Where are they going to stay? The Astrodome? Don't think so. And to add insult to injury, I heard an economist say that within a couple of days, we can expect gas prices in the Bay Area to rise to $3.50 a gallon for at least a month, due to reduced supply from shuttered refineries in the Gulf Coast.