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just out of curiosity -- if you were in the area hit by Gustav, and now facing the possibility of Ike, and say you were in charge of telling people how to evacuate, recover, allocating supplies, etc -- would you tell people to stop repairing stuff that they just returned to? I mean, if a hurricane is about to flatten your house again, at what point do you say it's not worth cleaning/rebuilding after the first one?

If you know another one is coming in a week, do you not bother to clean up the first one? How about a month? How long is worth it to have a place to live before it gets demolished again?

(or a year? if you're cynical )