Katrina Aid

I am not here. No one can see me here. If you say I have been here, I will deny it.

::looks over shoulder::

If I don't get a chance to rant soon about mandatory evacuations and how if there are no procedures in place to help the people without financial means to *leave*, then you really can't say that they are mandatory and how not having proper resources in place when you know and have known that this exact situation can occur and have had at least 35 years to get ready is a total and overall failure to the society you are supposedly there to protect and serve, I might explode. As it is, I almost blew up at a rather crass coworker (actually - middle manager) who wondered why all those idiots stayed in New Orleans when they should have left, but at the last minute I gritted my teeth and explained how it works.

Just. Damn.

I'm on the list here for catastrophe duty so I have no idea if I'll have to stay late yet or can go home tonight. A bunch of reps are being deployed to Mississippi once the storm passes through Louisville (we expect a bit of flooding) but I shouldn't be one of them. Unless things get really desperate so never say never (but seriously - you really do not want me on your roof).

But, to call this storm devastating is just inadequate.


Please remember that if you want to help in some way - the American Red Cross does take credit card donations.

http://www.redcross.org/

Filing A Katrina Claim

This website has almost all of the companies that write in LA, MS, and AL - and the toll-free numbers they have set up for insurers.

http://www.pciaa.net/sitehome.nsf/main