New Orleans...........

I have been in a sort of state of shock, as much of the nation has been, glued to the TV when I am home and awake, and wondering about it when I am at work. The tragedy of Katrina in the Gulf area is horrendous.

The description of the events in any of the area hit is bad, but listening to what happened in New Orleans is beyond imagination or belief. What they will find when the water finally goes down, and they can begin to really search is not something that I want to hear.

Single floor dwellings, water rising fast, people trying to escape by going to the attic... and the water still rising... trapping people inside with no way to get out, no way to escape... some swept away by waters rushing rapidly by, perhaps never to be seen again, or ever found. Some who managed to get out of the buildings, and out of the water, dying of thirst and sickness before they can get to safety, left on a road, face covered, because there are simply too many living to gather in...five day old infants burning with fever, and no one stopping to help the mother until a reporter finally stops a police car for her. Because there are just too many ...too many.... too many to help, and no real safe place to go, including hospitals.

Families split up, not knowing if the others have survived or not, though just a few days ago, they were all together. Families outside the area not being able to reach them to know if their loved one is safe or not. Friends, relatives, neighbors....

Homes lost. Neighborhoods gone. Cities gone!!

Destroyed in one night of wild raging winds and water. Someone being interviewed said
that this can only be described as being of Biblical proportions...as in the Great Flood, I imagine. It is what I have been thinking of also for the past several days...

Then come those intent on evil to compound this tragedy! The looters, the shooters. I have no sympathy for them, if they are caught. Had they been simply looking for food and water, it would be understandable. But to steal is wrong. To do it when this kind of catastophic event has just happened simply makes it worse than normal theft.

Finally, to hear that in the very shelters where those victims went to be SAFE, there have been rapes and more shooting is pure evil. To learn via the news that rescuers have been shot at while trying to get people out of that area, delaying their escape from the ravages of nature is horrifying!

May God have Mercy on the victims, and may His Justice be swift on those inflicting the evil on others at a time such as this.