[Lx]

You don't have to convince me. It's hard to imagine that their home, their place of work and all their friends and families' homes and work are simply not there anymore. Plus, a lot still don't know where all their family member's are.

It's an incredibly bad situation and I'm glad to see that local and nationwide businesses are chipping in as well as my Church and no doubt everyone else's Church. It's nice to see Americans helping other Americans.

[cajungirl]

yes, it is quite amazing. The churches are doing heavy lifting down here. Their entire congregations are involved, everyone I know was volunteering somewhere, housing people, giving away things, gathering stuff. The private schools chipped in, took in kids. It was truly something to see. Beautiful really.

I think that is why the whiners about "my taxes won't pay one cent" get to me. Cold, stingy, mean is how they come across. Surely feds won't pay for this whole thing, the private sector will do most of it, but I don't think this state can survive this without some federal input.