The good news is that New Orleans and its people appear to have got off relatively lightly as compared to Katrina (though the people of Bihar in India have been a lot less lucky). However, the storm did do quite a bit of damage and there are problems with basic services such as electricity. Speaking earlier today, Mayor Ray Nagin asked citizens not come back to the city until services were restored.

Obviously in such a situation the last thing that the city needs is a bunch of stupid tourists getting in the way, but because of this Northwest have been very reasonable and have allowed us to re-book for the following weekend. That’s going to be pretty tiring for me as I’ll be back from New Orleans and have to turn around almost immediately and head to England, but so it goes. The bottom line is that we do get our vacation and we don’t make nuisances of ourselves. That sounds good to me.