I work for a utility contracting company. Our company went down through Mutual Aid to assist in rebuilding the power line damage caused by the hurricanes. Gustav wasn't that bad, but since Ike hit a major metropolitan city (4th largest in the USA), there was a catastrophic amount of outages (over 9 million outages). Just imagine living without power in a state that has 90+ degree temperature during September... It's pretty rough. Then again, like WKFF, I did get paid a shit load of money...