Insult to Injury

Severe thunderstorms ripped through the New Orleans area and caused power outages and even ripped up the Louis Armstrong Airport. Paul at Wizbang has more. He notes that at a time when folks need to get building supplies, even the Home Depot got damaged by the latest storm.

Power is out in much of town... You know the parts which just got power back not that long ago. Downed power lines are everywhere from what we've heard this morning. Apparently all the roofs in a large hunk of Kenner and parts of Metairie were blown away.

And in a phenomenal bit of adding insult to injury, early reports have a waterspout coming ashore in the heavily damaged Lakeview area.

It is actually hard to determine how much of the damage was from last night. About 1/3 of the roofs in town are missing anyway so the casual observer doesn't know if it is tornado damage or from Katrina.

Just what we needed in town... More crap to clean up and the Home Depot damaged.