Anyone heard from Mike Abatzis?

[mabatzis at gmail.com (Michael Abatzis)]

thanks all. i'm alive and well and now in kinston, nc--just in time for 
another hurricane ;)
i was down there for the whole thing; i'll post my thoughts when i finish 
writing them. in the mean time, i was on 'anderson cooper' on cnn last week, 
and will be (apparently) be on 'cnn presents' saturday at 7pm and sunday at 
8pm. on the bright side, my house didn't flood, though i don't know anything 
else about it still. will be going back to nola next week to assess. from 
reading online forums, it looks like we have water (running, that is) and 
have/will soon have power believe it or not. hopefully i'll be moving back 
permanently next week to start the cleanup (that fridge is going to be a 
nightmare). new orleans is going to be back sooner than people think; the 
areas on the news are mostly residential/semi-suburban. the areas truly 
vital to the city, and what people come there for (french quarter, uptown, 
downtown, tulane/loyola) suffered damages but not the horrific flooding. if 
you go to http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24442075.jpg you can see 
satellite imagery of my neighborhood taken at the height of the flooding. my 
house is position 2420x1690 if you open the image in microsoft paint; you 
can see the flooding at the left of the image. looks like my roof (including 
the tin roofs of the porch and shed) are mostly intact. maybe a hole/lost 
shingles or something on the front of the house (towards the left). we'll 
see.