Thanks for your words of encouragement. It's nice to hear a calm, steady voice on this thread. :>)
I appreciate the compliment, but to tell you the truth I'm just as scared shitless about this as are the rest of you! My post was nothing more than my weak attempt to keep up hope while trying not to lose my own fudge. A man can live a couple of months without food, a week without water, and five minutes without air, but without hope none of us can survive from one moment to the next.
We can't hold back the storm. Whatever God allows to happen in New Orleans, our job is to keep our morale and spirits up so that we can effectively help them -- the victims of this storm -- recover.