Cat. 5 Kat

Many of my friends worked for the National Weather Service (often referred to in this blog as "the feds", "the government", "the weather service", "NOAA", and "NWS") in the Gulf Coast region. While Hurricane Katrina was not actually a Cat. 5 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale, it's effects were lasting and devistating.

Phillip from Slidell, sent pictures recently. The distruction was nearly complete. They don't get their postal mail yet. Like, when was the last time you didn't get your postal mail? MLK day? President's Day? They haven't gotten mail since September of 2005!

I'm watching an episode of Trading Spaces where some couples from New Orleans are trading houses, to help eachother "get back to normal". It's along the coast, not in the city. Whole neighborhoods have been bulldozed. Thousands and thousands of homes are gone, and people are writing notes to their friends and family in spray-paint, on the cement slabs where their houses used to be.

Something that I always go on about in my city, is the need for outreach to the homeless. People from N.O. are still homeless too. Let's think of them and give them a helping hand if we can.

Peace.
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