This is not the way American is supposed to be. I can not believe this. Call congress, call the President. Someone must do something.
Did you hear that Congress is cutting their vacation short too and returning to 'emergency session' tomorrow? They did it for Terri Schiavo; they can do it for NO, Miss, Alabama and Georgia too.
David Brooks' column today gives some interesting historical perspective on America's great floods --
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/opinion/01brooks.html?incamp=article_popular