Just to give you guys a picture, I go to school at Mississippi State in Starkville, MS, about 4 to 5 hours from New Orleans and they turned off all gas pumps here last night at midnight. The word is they are going to be turned off for at least a week. In Jackson, MS, all gas pumps are virtually empty and so are grocery stores. My dad lives in Crystal Springs which is an hour south of Jackson and he still is without electricity and a working phone line, however he is hooked up to a generator. Cell phones work, but at random times they do not due to towers being damaged and such.