DSK wrote:
I would have liked to see the see the underway replenishment
detail working from fuel trucks.

The few gas stations open had lines flowing into and out of them
to/from the massed traffic on the road. At that, there seemed to be
many cars pulled over on the shoulder out of gas all along the way.
Same for food places. And bathrooms... ick! We first stopped a bit West
of Baton Rouge cuz we used most of a tank just covering 100 miles or so
at the stop-and-go pace. While I waited in line for gas, Ronnie and the
girls went in and got in the food line and bathroom line. Imagine a
bathroom used by thousands of people continuously hour after hour
without cleaning service. It was WAY nasty.

Interesting side notes about Katrina taht stuck in my mind: Even after
K hit, gas was cheaper in N. O. than in Houston, by about $.50/gal.
Whatever you think of Mayor Nagin, he was in the media the week before
K hit telling people to get out of town. I remember him saying the
Wednesday before that he couldn't *order* an evacuation but if you
could possibly get out, you should. Finally, the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police had rescue/aid forces in the New Orleans area right after the
storm and a full week before FEMA showed up from their "nearby" staging
area, from which they were "unable" to get to some areas quickly.
Wonder how those mounties managed? Thanks, Canada. The Red Cross was
there, too. FEMA was MIA.