Live from Louisiana: A Hurricane Bloggers's Personal Journal - Louisiana Rocks: 8/31/08 10:26 PM CT

I still just can't get over how great everybody did - Louisiana rocks! No matter what happens next,  this storm has  so far brought Louisianians together in a way that Katrina didn't. Everybody rose to the occasion. Everybody. Citizens, local government, and yes the feds too.  I want people across the nation and abroad to to understand that these folks who secured their homes, loaded up their possessions, and evacuated out of Louisiana over the course of the past two days - yet but again -  have had homes and all possessions already destroyed - and just about the time we are all  getting back on our feet we're having to face the real possibility that all of our efforts to date may be for naught. We might have to start over. Yet everybody did what they had to do - We Louisianians have faced this challenge with courage and conviction. I told Paul Greenberg tonight (whose battened down in 'Bama), that we might be more experienced at disaster than anyone else on the planet right now. We have learned from our mistakes. I am so incredibly moved.   That being said, the toughest hours are still ahead of us. La/Gulf Coast citizens, wherever you are tonight just know you're  in my prayers. Come home soon!