It'll be interesting to see what will happen in the areaa where there is no longer any land; just water.

From what President Bush said [didn't say] today regarding covering the cost of cleaning up the debris and paying for temp shelter... I kind of wonder what'll be told to those property owners who have not (and are not permitted to) returned to their homes.

From what I've seen, it looks like a total washout... and it wasn't anywhere as bad as predicted if the surge would have been in the estimaded 20-35ft range or a possible Cat-5 spawning rotation.

I'm not talking about the whole of the barrier islands, but rather those hard hit areas that are now completely lost to the sea (no land and just sea). I don't know if they can bring it back and I don't know if new building codes for new construction can even be written to comply to no matter how stringent one can imagine they be for land under water. Man can mess around with low inland wetlands areas such as swampland, but I don't know about a moving barrier island.

Sad...

JB