Hey everyone. A couple of friends and I are going to the Gulf region to volunteer helping those tragically displaced and ravished by hurricane Katrina. I think they should really revise the hurricane names after they hit because Katrina sounds a bit sexy. Anyway, after seeing the chaos and desparate need, we decided to go there for a few weeks with the Red Cross.

Please contribute whatever you can, as this will be in the end the greatest natural disaster in our history; probably the greatest the modernised world will see for hopefully ever.

Kevin

PS. I will be taking a smallish camera to document some of my endeavors and i'll post upon coming back. I would like any of you to chime in on what you think the gov't response has been so far. All I can say is that I really feel that they should have immediately dropped in troops from the LOCAL AIRBASE for fucking christ (sorry about that outburst) and established Marshall Law to remove the lawlessness and bring heavy transport vehicles to move everyone out of the city to dry ground and to where they are staging things.

The excuse of "well we warned people to get out" is not adequite since they know that 1/3 of their population can't hardly afford their day-to-day expenses. Seems the better choice would have been to provide transport at least out of there beforehand since they had three days warning that it was growing strength and heading their way.

As for the lawlessness, I don't condone it at all. Breaking in a store to get food/drink is one thing, but stealing TVs is another. On the other hand, you can quite see the state of mind of a class of people, who for countless years has been neglected by the government. Then we really expect them to follow the "rules" when for all this time the "rules"of civility never were applied to them. I just really hope that when this is all said and done, the money that is poured into that region is well planned, well executed, well spent and gives those who lived in poor conditions before a better view of the world.