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...reached my father on his cell phone the Monday night after the storm spared our house and left him and my mother unharmed but without power and conventional phone service. When I told him about the rising floodwaters throughout New Orleans, the rain coming in through the torn Superdome roof, and the lack of air conditioning and lighting for the evacuated multitudes inside, his reaction was predictable. "What a shame. I'm sorry to hear about all that suffering," he said, before adding, "But I am so glad to be living out here in the country, far from that mess...
...shut down production and evacuated crews from the oil and gas fields that his company operates in the Mississippi Delta. The CEO of EnerVest, a Houston energy-asset-management firm, was luckier than most. Katrina spared four of his fields, though the damage to a fifth was ugly. The storm blew a barge five miles down the bayou from its moorings in marshy Garden Island Bay. Nearly every piece of oil equipment was destroyed, and Walker estimates it will take several months to get that field running at full capacity. "When there's this much damage, there are only...
Katrina didn't just fling barges across bayous--it ripped a hole in the nation's economy. The storm crippled oil and gas production in the Gulf, idled refineries and chemical-processing plants and devastated New Orleans' $7 billion tourism industry. The city stands to lose more than $500 million a month in visitor dollars. J. Stephen Perry, head of the Convention and Visitors Board, says the empty and damaged hotels "are like Baghdad on a bad day." But for the national economy, what's more critical is that Katrina disrupted a vital node in the country's transport network...
America's energy infrastructure was running at full capacity before Katrina hit, and the fact that so much of that capacity is concentrated in Hurricane Alley means more pain at the pump--especially if another big storm hits or events in the Middle East disrupt supply. Katrina sidelined nine refineries that account for about 12% of U.S. capacity. By the end of last week, the storm had prevented production of 547 million bbl. of crude, a 25-day supply. Offshore oil production in the Gulf accounts for nearly 10% of U.S. daily consumption. Worse yet, natural-gas production also shut...
Although the U.S. Energy Department says Katrina didn't damage production as badly as Ivan did a year ago, one energy executive, trading private e-mail, fretted that "the oil industry might be impacted for a year by Katrina." Several days after the storm, the price of gasoline moved above $3 per gal. in cities from New York to Los Angeles, and the government reported receiving more than 5,000 calls to its price-gouging hotline...