"Like Sad Little Flowers"

In addition to his op-ed, Tim Ruppert has posted a quite poignant video shot by his wife and featuring his child. It's about ten minutes long and well worth a look. The title of this post is Tim's daughter's description of the ceiling fans inside their "soon-to-be-demolished-house."

I wonder what the reaction would be to this video among those who are "tired" of hearing about the storm and flood (the latter decidely NOT an "act of God," but a human failing that, if it had been a private entity, would've opened said entity up to all sorts of liability/tort litigation).

Seeing one family's story really does give you a perspective--multiply it by thousands of families going through much the same experience across the entire region.

And the government's up in DC, doing almost nothing.

Criminal negligence--both before and after the storm.