wow

I was watching Dateline (laugh if you will) tonight and they had a special about the hurricane damage. Wow was all I could think to say. I cannot even imagine the devastation that those families are feeling right now. To have such a big city completely underwater is impossible to even imagine. The stories of people waiting it out because they couldn't even afford a tank of gas, ending up in their attics and cutting holes in the ceiling to escape are completely unthinkable.

I was trying to imagine what it would be like to survive the storm, come back to your "neighborhood" or whatever was left of it to find your house in scraps and all of your belongings having drifted away. Where would you go? What would you grab at the last minute, if anything at all? What if you had no where to go?? No family, no friends that weren't also looking for places to go after experiencing the devastation. How do you deal?

One of the most dramatic pictures on the news, in my opinion, was not the many pictures of the city under water. It was the picture of the coast in Mississippi completely torn to pieces and flooded with a GORGEOUS sunset in the background. From that same sky, the one that now depicts one of the most beautiful scenes in all of nature, just days earlier came one of the most catastrophic events in the last century. What an incredibly powerful image.