[InkyWretch]

I read a great article about how long the recovery effort might take in NOLA. It was something along the lines of...
Pump out the water, 60 days
Go house to house looking for bodies and/or survivors, 90 days
Inspect and decide which buildings can remain, 90 days
Bulldoze everything else, 120 days
Haul off the rubble, 120 days

So you're looking at more than 1 year before the city is even ready to start rebuilding. So I'll be shocked if Harrah's reopens in 2006.