The dire events in the storm-ravaged states and especially New Orleans are so horrible and so awful that words fail me. My heart is breaking for those people. A colleague lived through Katrina and wrote about it. She's a wonderful writer and a good person.
Here is a link to Footsteps To Oxford:

The Diary of a Louisiana Housewife Hilary Kay Toucey
http://www.footstepstooxford.com/
Read her diary and the subsequent events of the hurricane Katrina and her family's struggle.

She knows she is lucky and blessed. I want send her and all those folks down there a big hug and all the help we can give you. I hope things get better fast fast fast.

Some emergency systems have or are failing -- we want to know why.

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Here is a picture of Zippy's pal Quigley.



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