Well it looks like Hurricane Ike will press the patience and resources to the limits in the next week. Currently wreaking havoc on the islands in the Caribbean It looks as if Ike will turn toward the Gulf Coast and possibly hit New Orleans. It has been a cruel and intense hurricane season already and there is a lot of it remaining.
It appears that FEMA, the state and the city did a great job in the evacuation last week. People are still trying to return home though largely due to the inability of the power companies with shared resources to bring the grids back up.
We should keep the residents and the responders in our thoughts and prayers as we head into this next storm. It will test their human resolve to continue on in the face of these back to back storms. It is almost a certainty that public and private resources will be strained. Hopefully the public recovery efforts will be as successful as the evacuation was.
