I certainly hope for the best for Tooneric and the rest of the DVCers in those affected areas.
We've all been through natural disasters of one sort or another, but until you have been through one which destroys entire communities, rather than neighborhoods, you really don't have any idea what the people of coastal Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are facing. Hurricane Andrew struck a relatively sparsely-populated area of South Florida 13 years ago (almost to the day), and that area has still not fully recovered.
I can tell you, as a person who has been deeply involved in disaster planning, and intimately involved with the recovery effort from Hurricane Andrew, the people on the Gulf Coast are facing a MUCH worse situation than we ever faced in the darkest hours after Hurricane Andrew.
We certainly need to keep those folks in our thoughts and prayers