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October 17, 2007 at 5:34 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-daltonbeninato/as-a-katrina-evacuee-im_b_68725.html

IS all fine and "back to normal" for the Gulf Coast region and, particuarly, New Orleans? Read this article, from the Huffington Post.

I read that, and I feel that it's really, really terrible to think that way. New Orleans and other places devastated by Katrina need to be rebuilt physically, financially, and psychologically. People who have been through this are truly victims, coping as well as they can, and needing help.
Thank you for this post. I admit, living in the Northeast where I do, I don't know anyone personally who was affected by Katrina. But when I got home from work yesterday, after reading your blog and the link, I got a letter from the UUSC, requesting a donation for their gulf coast recovery program. http://www.uusc.org/katrina/

I get so much junk mail and so many donation requests that I might have just recycled it without looking at it if I hadn't been thinking about it already based on your blog. Government failed at all levels in this disaster; these private service organizations deserve all the help we can give them.

One problem of course is that with the 30 second attention span of the media, New Orleans is no longer a story to them. It's a (I was going to say "shame", but the words I need are MUCH stronger than that) f***ing pathetic reflection of society that a city and it's people so in need of our help can be so completely ignored by those of us most capable of helping.

Neil

New Orleans was an ecological disaster and Katrina was an human disaster. Two sad stories. The repair of one exacerbates the extent of the other.

New Orleans could never have become what it was without the massive political "payoff" that created an unsustainable levee system.

Here we truly see the consequences of meddling with nature. Sadly the poor always pay for the excesses of others especially when the excess comes from the treasury of the US. The richest ten men in the world could not have created such a disaster but politicians always seem to manage especially when they do it with our money.