Here we go again, friends. New Orleans is flooding all over again. The levee has either failed or simply been overflooded and the Ninth Ward section of New Orleans is already under water - and the full force of Hurricane Rita is still 250 miles out in the Gulf.
Southwest Texas is also under serious threat from this storm, which is still a Category 4 but is expected to weaken ever-so-slightly to a 3 before the eye makes landfall. But that won't help much... in New Orleans, the damage is already done. The only thing we won't know for a few days is how bad it will be before they can plug up the holes in the levees and clean up, AGAIN.
Between the winds, the rain, the flooding, and even the tornados that go along with a hurricane... with the multiple evacuations and tragedies (like a bus of elderly evacuees catching fire and then exploding from the oxygen tanks in use by some of the passengers)... I can't help but wonder just how much people can withstand.
Join me in sending your thoughts and prayers to the people in Rita's path, and don't forget to continue sending your donations to these relief agencies. The need continues.
