Meteorologist Jeff Masters notes today that although the storm surge has pushed salt water from the Gulf as far as 314 miles upstream, all the rain expected to fall north of New Orleans in the coming days will help raise near record-low water levels on the river and flush the salt water back out.
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Although the European storm may spark debate among American consumers, most American farmers are likely to stay well earthed.
Although Disney did bend to the storm, it did not bend all that much.
The president has pulled out of a Monday event in Ohio - considered a key swing state - in order to return to Washington to monitor the storm - although he is still set to attend a rally with former President Bill Clinton in Florida earlier in the day.
The Audubon Zoo is open on weekends, although the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, which lost most of its fish after the storm knocked out power, won't reopen until summer.
Although many are talking about Hurricane Sandy, the other storm front that is heading towards the hurricane has already closed off a major Canadian Highway in Wawa, Ontario.
The buildings department said a high gust of wind was likely in part to blame, although the crane should have been designed to withstand the 80 to 100 mile per hour winds during the storm.
Although more could have been done to warn us about the storm, the clean-up that followed was astonishing in its speed.
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For both projects, the storm clearly has added significant delays, although just how long work will be set back is far from clear.
Although we have seen improved functioning in some markets, the financial storm that reached gale force some weeks before our last meeting here in Jackson Hole has not yet subsided, and its effects on the broader economy are becoming apparent in the form of softening economic activity and rising unemployment.
Experts say the sort of exact estimates attributed to the Beijing Weather Modification Office official by Xinhua -- 16 million tons of extra snow -- is nearly impossible to make for any individual storm, although statistics gathered painstakingly over years can enable estimates of the effectiveness of longer-term efforts.
Ninety miles east, in Creston, Iowa, storm damage prompted local officials to evacuate the local medical center, although officials said they weren't sure if damage had been caused by a tornado or just high winds.
Dr Fairburn said that although things look bleak for medicine at the moment, he is sure the profession will ride the storm.
Although overstretched by the acquisition of BMI and two smaller airlines, Lufthansa is strong enough to weather the storm better than most.
Although New Orleans is still a laid-back place that likes a good time, the trauma of the storm and the long slog back to normality seem to have energised it.
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There is always calm before the storm, and I fully expect Bordeaux prices to return and exceed their previous highs, although Chateau Lafite Rothschild may not get back to its highs as soon as others.
Check out the video after the break and you'll see that we asked our Acer rep for his view on what happened in Taiwan and, although he didn't have first-hand knowledge of the event in question, he insisted that it was a storm in a teacup.
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