Basically agree with Big Red as far as the seriousness of the damage is.. I hope I didn't offend anyone with my earlier post saying this isn't "The Big One". The only "good" news is that it appears that there won't be an unimaginable death toll and to a lesser extent complete destruction of NO we had been fearing. Compared to history this seems to be shaping up to be the biggest one so far and that's certainly bad enough no matter what you label it.

That said the questions now.. removing the dead, finding a place to live for the newly homeless, trying to keep people healthy in cleanup and refugee area.. these are beyond anything we've dealt with before.

Really good point re: the temp housing
no idea what the answer is.

Having lived through Charley and seeing the massive relief effort here it's just hard to fathom the effort that will need to take place in such a larger (very rough guess of serious damage in 20x as large area) and more heavily populated area. Don't know what the logistics are for cleaning up flooding vs. wind damage, but I'd have to assume flooding is hell to clean.