Shreveport

This is three-and-a-half-year-old Garett, my second cousin-in-law.

He's looking miserable because Gustav, now downgraded to a tropical storm, is passing overhead. It's been raining solidly for 24 hours so he can't play outside, and his back garden is fast turning into a lake - they're forecasting ten inches in two days.

Also, he has to put up with me and Pam till Friday when Ray Nagin, New Orleans' much-loved mayor, says we can go home.