Please go back to thread five and re-read.
Power did not go out until about 11:30 EST or later on Monday.
Anybody living in the Gulf Coast should understand their particular weather patterns.
And if Shep was such a "Coast Rat" as he claims, he should have as well.
Are you saying power didn't go out in New Orleans until 11:30 EST or later on Monday? That's 10:30 central time. I live in Central Mississippi, and our power went off at about 12:30 central time. I don't think it stayed on that long in New Orleans, or at least not in most places. At least not according to what I have heard from people who were there.