Washington        Nothing is ever easy in New Orleans, especially coming home again!  Though spared the hurricane largely for the usual reasons (arrogance, incompetence, insensitivity, whatever?), the Mayor and the gang do not seem quite willing to let people come home.     At one level he is claiming there is a clean-up, but people on …

Jackson        There was a different pace and tenor to evacuation day #2 in Little Rock.  We were all up early despite the late collapse to watch the progress of Gustav as it hit the coast.     Learning from Katrina, there were two coolers worth of food taken out of the freezer at home that …

Little Rock       The last leg from Buenos Aires for me was on a smallish American Airline hop from Dallas after the all-night flight from Santiago.  Standing around in front of the gate was not the usual group of passengers.  In fact this American flight had become a company plane in a different sense.  There were …