The water has now fallen below flood stage and the real issues are coming to light. Its amazing how everyone is pitching in and helping tear out wet carpet, drywall, ruined furniture and already beginning the rebuilding process. Whole neighborhoods with all the contents of their homes/lives stacked up in the front yards to be hauled off. Churches, volunteer groups, The Red Cross are not waiting around for the govt to save the day. As said on TV last nite we are already at a point it took New Orleans 3 months to get to. The areas effected were hit hard and its scattered all over the metro area.
Its going to take a long time to recover but we are THE VOLUNTEER STATE and are showing we will come through this OK. The TV coverage doesn't begin to do justice to just how bad it was.
Watching news cast over the years and seeing flooding in other regions, you just never comprehend the devastation till it hits close to home.