Katrina And The Waves

There are two things we can do about the hurricane hitting Louisiana and Mississippi at this moment:

1) Donate money to the Red Cross, as The Daily Kos points out, since they know how to coordinate relief efforts with FEMA and other agencies (and I'm afraid this is going to be the mother of all relief efforts, so to speak).

2) Pray.

To get some idea of what we could be faced with, go here to read the blog of Miles O'Brien of CNN. Short of the tsunami, this could be catastrophic.

Also, here is a link from Refdesk and the National Hurricane Center about the costliest hurricanes over the period of 1990-2004.

(I wonder which group Pat Robertson is going to blame for this disaster, claiming that it's God's wrath against them, no doubt?).