Returning to New Orleans???

Several people I know are thinking they are going to return to New Orleans

on Monday.  I have a really good imagination and a great hope that they are

right.  But, somehow, I just don't see it. 

New Orleans is a battle zone, a place where people are engaged in a

primitive struggle to survive.  I don't think the struggle will end in a

few days.  I thought that when I was in the city (in one of the least

damaged areas), but looking at the TV accounts it's obvious that this

disaster is of Epic proportions.