In Katrinas aftermath, Fred Yoder is a very busy man. "I work 16 hours a day and its all I can do to drive back to Baton Rouge to be with my family and get some sleep before I turn around to come back at 5 a.m. the next morning," said Yoder, president and chief operating officer of Durr Heavy Construction LLC in Harahan, La.
For Yoder, like many others these days, work has been a godsend. "It is very therapeutic," Yoder said. "If I had to sit around and think about all my losses without something to distract me, it would be terribly depressing."