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DarrenMom's doing better--back to normal.
I believe history will show that Hurricane Gustav will have caused as least as much damage as Katrina. The "relief" as reported by the media is that Gustav did not hurt New Orleans. What it did do is devastate rural Louisiana towns from Grand Isle to Ragley. Baton Rouge sources say that Gustav was the most damaging storm in its history. In Houma and the rest of Terrebonne parish they were just allowed to return home today--with no electricity, water, and sewage.
I live in Cut Off (in southern Lafourche Parish)and next to Terrebone we took the biggest hit. You won't hear about us on the news, nor will you hear about Leeville, Barataria, Golden Meadow, Raceland, Gray, Montegut, etc or the countless other small towns that were pummeled.
About 85% of all Louisiana parishes will get a federal disaster area label as a result of Gustav.
In reality there is so much more to Louisiana than New Orleans.
Currently there are about 1000 out of state power company trucks in our parish of Lafourche. I can't express enough our gratitude for the help they are giving us.