[podkane]

We all know these people need help and when the dust settles I am sure that we will step up and help them.

When the "dust settles" (or rather the water recedes), thousands may be dead. The time to have mobilized forces was before the hurricane hit. Maybe getting all those people out beforehand would have been smart.

Too late now, it's going to be a major mop-up... and I fear the political fallout from this isn't going to be pretty...

[ARCADIA]

When the "dust settles" (or rather the water recedes), thousands may be dead.

I was referring to help in the sense of private charitable donations to help them reestablish themselves. Obviously they need to be rescued first and right away. I hope we are not passing the hat to fund the rescue effort.