[AJ]

I'm gonna toss in some of my thoughts.

In all reality I don't think any of us can truely understand what these people are going through. For those who's house didn't wash away 90% will have to be torn down due to flood damage. EVERYTHING that supports the basic life system has to be rebuilt. Gas Stations, Jobs, Hotels, Roads, Cars are totaled, ect ect... Pets gone, Animals in Zoos washed away, months before water can get out and some have said a year beofre building coudl actually begin. Oil and other hazardous materials that will prove to me another huge impactng factor in long term stability.

Many feel this was it, this is where people that did have insurance will collect when time allows and leave the area for good. While others with no insurance will take the loss and never live the same again. It's going to cost everyone. It's hitting everyone. One of the new guys at work found out his son lost everything and his wife is still looking for some of her family. Brett Farve has family that also lost everything. So in reality this is the big one, one that people can't just be singled out as effetcing those the area. Many think it's only a matter of time till body count really starts to add up and possibly surpass even 9/11.

The HIstory of the area has been destroyed.

The one thing that just pisses me off is the looting. There are 2 types of people looting down there. The first is for survival. I am in FULL support of getting into sotres for clothing, shoes, water, canned goods, ect ect. Stuff to make life, or what's left of it, a little eaiser for them at this time till stability is put somewhat back into place. The second are these mothers fuckers looting casino groudns for money, taking guns from wal mart, going after items found near jewerly stores and other material items. These people need to be shot on site. They don't seserve to live and now it's gotten so bad that the government has almost stopped rescue efforts to put law back and stop looters. Complete waste of resources.