This is a major US city that is facing further devastation on an hour by hour basis. I think it is beyond our comprehension how dire the situation is because we have never faced this in our lifetimes.
Well I hope my optimism is contagious. The thing that folks have to do is get busy. Whether it's helping yourself or helping your neighbor - get busy. It makes the time pass, and things get done. All the nervous Nellies can stand off to the side and watch while people who want things to "get back to normal", get to work. Certainly "normal" will be different, but normal it will be.
AM radio station 870 WWL is reporting that compounding the danger of those daring to swim about in the nearly eight foot deep water are large rafts of fire ants and stinging red ants. EUWEH!
All true. But Galveston lost 8,000 - 10,000 people during the Hurricane of 1900 and the entire city was submerged, most of the buildings wrecked. No one thought Galveston would ever rebuild; but she did come back strong, albeit as a tourist haven, not the important port she once was.