It Just Keeps Getting Worse and Worse"

Each day, each hour, each minute, the information coming from the Gulf Coast just keeps getting worse and worse. People are getting desperate, and they are getting angry. Yes, there are looters. Some of those looters are just trying to get water, food, and diapers. They just want HELP, and although they don't realize that it is coming, it is.

But in the meantime, we see all of this happening. The NBC News has just shown a video showing people in shock, people with no food, no water, no way to get out of New Orleans. These are heart-wrenching moments caught on tape. If these scenes of fellow Americans trying to survive don't make you cry and say, "I HAVE TO HELP SOMEHOW", I don't know what will. And this is just New Orleans. Gulfport, Biloxi, and outlying communities are absolutely blown away. Some communities don't even exist any more. I am just wondering how everyone dealing with this whole horrible tragedy will recover. I know they will, and in time, they will move on.

There is an article in the LA times that really brings home what life has been like for those in the Superdome. Go to http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-superdome1sep01,0,4489032.story?coll=la-home-headlines to view the article. It is another one of those "Oh, my God" stories.

They are trying desperately to plug the leaks in the levees. They are using "sandbags on steroids", basically huge concrete bags (massive would be the word I would choose) to try and stop the giant gap in the levees. I was watching helicopters drop these "sandbags" a few minutes ago (via realtime video, of course, being 2200 miles from this happening).

For those who say, "I can't afford anything", go without a meal or two, and donate the food, or better yet, the money you would have spent on it to the Red Cross, Salvation Army, or another organization that is helping. Help. Someway, somehow. Volunteer.