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I started the day off with a pap smear and it hasn't gotten much better. How fun..

So I heard from my Fool friend last night, he's fine. But he's headed out of the city today, finally. Not sure how he's going to drive out of there, but he'll figure it out. They're talking about not letting people back into the city for a month or so. Can you imagine? Every house probably has to searched once the water goes down, one can only imagine what will be found in the this kind of weather in the next month. I was watching the news last night after the game (Seattle won) and couldn't get my mind around the amt of flooding. NO is a sprawling place with lots of shotgun shacks and shaky housing options in some of the poor sections of town (which is a lot of the city, rampant poverty is a big problem down there). Only the French Quarter is above sea level and it has some flooding issues too. I had a conference scheduled in NO in Nov, but I suspect that will be cancelled or moved. I was looking forward to another trip down there.

Instead, I made two donations in my mom's name to the Red Cross and the PetSmart charities. A drop in the (literal) bucket, but I had to do something. I'd hate to think what the South would be like without the grittiness of New Orleans..