It's time to bring out your wallet for these people. I'm not sure if this is comparable to 9/11, but it's close to it as far as human misery & destruction.
Probably worse, as so many of these people do not have insurance.
Although there hasn't been the same number of casualties, it seems to me that this is going to be worse in economic, historic, and cultural terms.
I think the city is lost. I just don't see how they can rebuild to what it was before, and there is so much history that is gone. For example, I stayed in a youth hostel that used to be a Confederate civil war hospital. It was rumored to be haunted by the ghosts of dead soldiers.
If the water stays high for weeks, how can that possibly be saved?
Yeppers...and this calls for the jazz and country type entertainers to get together and maybe do for these people what other groups have done for other disasters...
I think unless Nashville is horribly damaged, it would be a good staging ground for a concert or two...Dallas, Houston, Austin could all hold fundraiser concerts...
Don't give to the Red Cross - they've turned into a self-serving boondoggle. Organizations like the Salvation Army are much more effective and cost-efficient for short-term relief. For longer periods, find relief agencies with adequate oversight mechanisms - those can't be in-house.