Thats one tough dude to fight his way back from that. I wish the best for him and his family going forward.
This is exactly what pisses me off about some people in this business. Not implicating Donnie in any way let me say. But you hear it every day some one on the job bitching about this rule or that rule, and some of them are quite small issues. This is an unforgiving business, she'll wait as long as she has to for you to screw up and when you do it will be there waiting.
I pray that my family, friends (as well as myself) and coworkers never have to go through something like this. We have to be looking out for each other every day to try to prevent such accidents. I worked all 4 of those storms and remember bitching about needing "just one day off". I am sure he would have traded positions with me.
Hopefully we can move past many issues with each other and make this a safer proffesion. Our lives and the quality in which we live them depend on it.