It's no surprise that if you're thrown out of your house by, say, a major natural disaster, you'll probably end up talking on your cell phone a lot. So Houston, TX and New Orleans, LA -- two cities joined by the misery of Hurricane Katrina refugees -- topped the list for most cell phone minutes used per person in the first quarter of 2006, according to research firm Telephia.

But the other eight cities on Telephia's top 10 list are more mysterious. Daytona Beach, FL comes in third -- are kids still going for Spring Break there? Toledo is fourth, followed by Atlanta, Mobile Alabama, Raleigh NC, Knoxville TN, and Dallas. Apparently Southerners like to chat on their cells more than people in any other part of the country, according to Telephia.

Can anyone from Toledo out there explain why you folks are so chatty?

(Photo of Daytona Beach, left, from the Daytona Beach CVB.)

Read Telephia's full press release.