Since he lives about 190 miles NNE of NO my guess is that not only is
the TOWER OF UNION MS down, but he lost the trees that were attempting
to hold the TOU up. He is most likely out of electricity and telephone
(internet connection) lines.

The storm was quite strong even in central MS, probably still category 1
there. Many even "built-by-the-book" towers would be destroyed from there
south, especially if trees fell across the guy wires.

Here in northeast MS (Starkville) Katrina was at strong tropical
storm strength. Several trees in my yard were blown over. Fortunately
my two towers (100',70') survived and the only damage was some
bent/broken 15m yagi elements from flying tree branches.

Tor
N4OGW
Starkville, MS