Bringing it home

I found this public blog - http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_nolaview/archives/2005_08.html
It allows people to post stories, calls for help or requests for information about people, pets, homes, etc. It has really brought home the personal side of this tragedy for me. I haven't been watching the news this week, so I only knew the barest of facts of what has been happening, but the stories of these people are so real.

Anyway, I thought others might be interested -some are heartbreaking and others make you feel that there really are good people out there
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This is an email I sent out to some friends. I could go on and on about how horrible this tragedy is, but I think everybody is aware of that. I wish everyone well and hope most come out of this safely, but I continue to have one reoccuring thought that I feel rather guilty for. I have read so much about sea level and New Orleans and how it was a mistake to try to settle a city there, let alone such a large city. Perhaps it would be best to allow the ocean to reclaim that area. Maybe the US shouldn't try to fix the levee. Maybe this is one of those really harsh lessons about Mother Nature and the power struggle between man and nature. I know this is horrible to say when the lesson has cost us thousands of lives, but I think it might be an even bigger mistake to suggest people should go back there and establish lives again.

Anyway, this is probably a horrible thing to say, but this is the place to do it if I'm going to.
bye