For the past two days, we’ve been driving along I-20 through Alabama, Mississippi, Lousiana, and into Texas. Along the way, we passed several convoys of power company trucks from New Jersey and North Carolina on their way to help with the restoration of power in the Gulf areas of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas. There were also notices at fuel stations limiting us to $25 gas purchases. We are staying in a hotel in Texas (NW of Houston) which is nearly filled with hurricane evacuees. The human toll from these two storms is very difficult to understand for those us that were not directly affected by these horrendous storms. Let’s hope that the Bush administration does implelment and follow-through-on a Roosevelt-type New Deal plan for the reconstruction of all of the communities in the Gulf.