Thinking of New Orleans

It's so crazy. You don't even realize what is going on in New Orleans and that area, until you see the frightening images on TV. I watched the Dateline special tonight....and wow....it is just mind boggling. I can't even begin to imagine what those people are going through out there. One man swam for 8 hours with his three dogs, just to get to dry land. Some of them are going on the fourth day on their roofs. People are still being rescued, only to be dropped onto a highway for another wait to get on a bus. When people do get on these buses they have no idea where they are going. With only what they can carry...pets...children....they are shipped off to spend what could be months at an airport, or convention center, or arena. They have lost everything they own. Clean water is like gold now. Families are being separated. People are dying now, just because of the aftermath. Looting, shootings, starving, dehydration...it's all normal to them now. There are dead bodies in the street. People are pulling their dead loved ones along with them. People are shooting eachother over a bag of ice.
So much, we take for granted. It's amazing that it takes something like this to make me realize it. As I sit here typing on my computer, with lights to see and water to drink, an air conditioner to keep me cool, and all of the things around me that make me happy and comfortable....I just feel sick for those people. I get to go to sleep in peace tonight, while others are out there sleeping on the side of the road, or next to thousands of other people who don't know what to do, or where to go next. Paying $3.00 for gas doesn't seem like that big of a problem now. I can't even imagine.....