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Cyberion, everything is wonderful in Toronto. It's heavan right now. I have friends coming from PA for the long weekend tomorrow. It's going to be great.

As for the disaster, I have a long time buddy who evacuated Ocean Springs MS, just across the bay from Biloxi, last Saturday and is now 350 miles north in an RV park. He succeeded today in buying 8 gas cans (limit is 4 to any out of town customer) and is now looking for gas stations to fill them. Gasoline is in short supply all over the south right now, apparently. He's getting ready to head back to see if the house he had built this past summer and outfitted with mostly new stuff, is still there, and if so, what's left after looters might have visited.

The Canadian Red Cross has mobilized specialists to go to the gulf coast to assist the American Red Cross. It seems that financial assistance is not so much the issue as the logistical and information problems. We may not be getting an accurate pictrue of what's going on, but, the seeming lack of managment leadership is shocking.