Hurricane Katrina has delivered a knockdown blow to parts of the Gulf Coast.
Mobile, Alabama is underwater. The National Guard has been sent in to secure the city.
New Orleans now faces unprecedented environmental catastrophe after the hurricane left parts of the city thirty feet underwater, slammed oil platforms into bridges, flooded neighborhoods, tore buildings and houses apart and flooded or destroyed water treatment plants, chemical plants, oil refineries, cemetaries and other places that don't do well when mixed with H2O. Looting has been reported as well.
Upwards of one million Americans may be homeless. It has been a long time since a densely populated area was hit by a powerful hurricane; FEMA is writing a new book on how to handle situations like this.
New Orleans could be underwater for weeks or months. The levees that were constructed to keep the water out of the below-sealevel city are now keeping the floods in New Orleans. And water is still flooding in. What can be done now?
And what can we do to help?
The best thing we can do is donate money to the Red Cross and, if you live near neighbors who got flooded out, open your home to their families until the government and Red Cross can set up alternative housing. Volunteer at the refugee camps. And pray for the survivors, the mourning, and for the rescue teams who are arriving on-station to help those communities that need the help the most. May God protect them all.
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