The harsh reality is that our delegation in Washington now is incredibly weak. What we've lacked is federal funding.

You can see very clearly a considerable amount of breaching and inundation,

Certainly there's a lot less sand behind those breakwaters since Hurricane Katrina, ... But, having said that, it looks like it could have been a lot worse.

In the fullness of time, the tsunami was just another bad day in the life of the coral reef. It will recover.

A lot of small ponds that were isolated from the Gulf are now exchanging waters with the Gulf, ... lots of sand removal leaving the marsh exposed to the Gulf.