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Hi, MEG!
So glad you were away from the fury of Rita, and have are having a bit of a respite in your own house.
It is mindboggling to realize how many thousands of persons are suffering as a result of not only these two storms, but all the ones that hit the Gulf and Atlantic coasts/states in the past several years.

In whole sections of Florida, for example, there are many persons still without habitable homes, waiting for insurance/government money, and/or enough construction workers to perform the repairs/rebuilding.

I doubt they see Mayor Nagin's New Orleans as "more special" than the rest of the country, and "due" total renovation.
Are we expected to replace his slum sections with houses worth $100,000?

What a pathetic mess has been created there by the Old Guard there, guarding their treaure chests, and he and Governor Blanco "demanding" help from the rest of the nation...
All gall is not in Gaul, methinks.