Didn't they rebuild the levees? Make them stronger.. maybe they'll hold this time? God I hope. What a situation. If we learned nothing else, hopefully we learned what it takes to make the levees hold. We can handle the rest.

I work with homeless all the time and help rebuild lives and my job is full of triumph and joy every day. I know when we got the Katrina refugees we all wanted to help them, remember? I finally did have one come to our program and she was just broken, unable to respond to help available. She ended up leaving our program, as she had the last, and drifting elsewhere. I hope there was someone along the way who was able to get through to her.

If you were there now and saw Gustav coming and had no car and no family to help or maybe all of your family was also in its path what could you do? Walk North to where? Thats why Red Cross and others should be setting up shelters now to receive refugees, far out of Gustavs path and so that basic needs will be met during the crux of it. The problem with the potentially flooded areas is that all the systems stop working. The problem with getting all the people out is some will wager the levees will hold this time. I hope they hold. We can't all do it on our own we need community. "The poor will always be with us."