Even if they could, they won't.

"After a helicopter trip over the Baton Rouge area, Public Service Commissioner Jimmy Field said the storm knocked down 20 of the area's transmission towers that follow the Mississippi River along the 80 miles between New Orleans and the capital.

"This was a perfect storm, if you wanted to destroy as much of the generation and the transmission alley that we have," Field said.

Entergy Corp., the region's top power company, agreed with Field's prediction about the Baton Rouge. By contrast, the company predicted that power would be fully restored in New Orleans on Monday."

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D93092700.htm

http://tropics.hamweather.com/2008/atlantic/ike/trackmap_zoom1.html

http://www.esl.lsu.edu/quicklinks/hurricanes/2008/IKE/images/Storm-09-Sp...

I'm putting Ike into Pascagula as a Cat 3.

Mobile, Cat 3

Bite your tongue. :)

Ed. Pensacola. No cats. One beagle.

Oklahoma City, Cat 1