More hurricane comments

I couldn't believe something I read in the paper the other day--residents of a new Orleans nursing home were left to fend for themselves when the hurricane hit; the staff abandoned them, and many of these elderly people died. It's an outrage, and it seems like a microcosm of how the federal government abandoned the evacuees for so long--imagine being without food and water for days, after losing everything. The hurricane has torn through much more than a city; it's pulled back the covers on how indifferent the Bush administration is. Many--probably most--of the evacuees in the Superdome and the New Orleans Convention Center were poor, elderly, disabled, etc., had no way of getting out (many people's assistance checks would not be paid out until September 1st--and believe me, sometimes there really isn't a spare ten or twenty at the end of the month to get gas. I also read that many of the evacuees who went to the shelters or tried to stay in their homes didn't even have transportation). I've been donating to the Red Cross; I am extremely sad over this terrible disaster, and it makes my own personal grumbles seem very small.