When you posted the first Hurricane Katrina thread at 9:30AM on August 24, you probably had no idea how big this thing was going to become. Here we are 15 threads and nearly 50,000 replies later! This is certainly the biggest news event we ever have gone through here in Free Republic. Yes, bigger than 9/11, bigger than the 2000 election fiasco, the 1998 impeachment and yes, bigger than even all those Hobbit Hole threads.
Not likely to slow down anytime soon, either.
This could be an ongoing "drama" for a long time..actually I hope it does, for two reasons.
1. These people are gonna need help for a long time, and we can't forget in a week's news cycle.
2. That means something "worse" hasn't happened to take this off the front pages...if you know what I mean.