I'm sort of the same way about being interested in the mechanics and those sorts of details. I didn't think you were posting about it for sympathy or anything . Yeah, Katrina was something else. I have a friend who was a jazz trumpet player in NO when it hit - he got out beforehand, but he has a lot of friends who didn't. I heard about it secondhand.

~Molly

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. -Albert Camus