The word hurricane, if memory serves, derives from the name Caribbean Indians had for their storm god. The estimates of damage wrought by Katrina will doubtless be stratospheric! I understand that Jefferson Parish residents are asked to stay away for a week and will be allowed to return only to collect supplies and then are asked to leave for another month. Martial law may be declared. I could wish this disaster might be the means by which New Orleans could rebuild and become again the Paris of North America. May God bless all the victims of this mega-cane.