I'd love to know too, as friends and I had been planning a trip there the first week of September (based in part on great info provided by the OP in other threads). ^ We put it on hold last week after reading that rather dire AP story last weekend.

Sunday's Washington Post has a much milder take:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...072900956.html

Hard to know what to believe. It sure would be nice to hear from someone who has actually been there this month.