Thanks to all of you for your thoughts and prayers.
Guess they were answered 'cause seems we dodged a bullet BIG time in N'awlins at least, though our neighbors a little to the west suffered more so, this time (with undoubtedly more problems to follow). I certainly know and feel (from personal experiences) what they're going through. So let's keep them in our prayers still.
It was scary though, sitting in an Alabama motel and watching that water spraying over the tops of the Intercoastal Canal levee walls (a mere 5 minutes jump from my own home). Didn't think it'd hold, but looks like the Army Corps of Engineers came thru big time on the repairs. Kudos to them.
(Brian Williams, our favorite newscaster, greatly admired here for his work during The Storm, did that evening's news segment hanging from a ladder on the side of one of those walls with the water seemingly inches from the top, overhead.)
Of course this storm's surge was nothing near what it was for THE Storm. And with more storms certain to follow (three more lining up out there even as we speak) we (the lower Eastern Coast and the entire Gulf Coast) know it's not over yet.
We are no doubt STILL in for some rather dicey moments.